April 2014
Imagine a world where it is possible to win the battle
against weeds in the lawn and brambles in the hedge.
Imagine a world where buildings can go up that will never
collapse, where engines don’t fail, where plans succeed and crops are healthy;
where work is never futile.
Imagine a world where governments always serve, where power
is not abused, where the things that “must never happen again” never happen
again.
Imagine a world where people no longer give up all hope that
justice will be done to those who destroyed their family, stole their land or
emptied their bank account.
Imagine a world where the things I have done wrong can be
atoned for, and the relationships I have damaged can be restored.
Imagine a world where people never hear devastating news
from doctors, where life does not become harder and harder as the years advance,
where death is not an invincible enemy.
Of course it’s a fantasy world, isn’t it? This is so far removed from our experience of
life on this planet that we can hardly imagine such a world existing without a
major overhaul; a complete strip-down of the universe with all the parts put back
together in a very different arrangement, almost a whole new creation.
But what if there had
been a time when just such a reversal of the universe had been seen? What if there had been a man whose whole life work never once had the shadow of
futility and despair fall across it?
Imagine if we lived in a world where, even just once, a dead
man had lived again, with a new kind
of body that would never weaken, age or die.
Imagine the glimmer of solid hope that might be to us!
Happy Easter!
Graham Burrows
