Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter means AWAKENING to me



Easter means AWAKENING to me

By Wafa Faith Hallam
March 27, 2016

As Easter approached I kept thinking of what it really meant.  I kept thinking that what Jesus really wanted his flocks to retain from it was quite different from what the religious doctrine named after him, which was stuck in ancient thinking, continued to preach.

Easter, the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  But what is Resurrection, if not Rebirth?  What is it for us today if not AWAKENING to our Higher Self, our Pure Consciousness?
On television in the last few days, the constant depiction of Jesus’ suffering and the fixation on his crucifixion and sacrifice are the fundamental message:  Jesus accepted his horrific death because he wanted to show men the extent of God’s love.  His suffering was not only to establish a new Covenant between God and his people, but to absolve the whole of humanity and not just a select few from their sin. And their sin was their belief that they were separate from God and not one with him. That the bloodied Cross became the symbol of the faith is telling.  And yet, Jesus never once spoke of himself as being the Crucifixion.

His words were “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”

Even though I am not a Christian, and not a scholar of the Holy Scriptures, I see Jesus as one of the greatest embodiments of God’s Love on Earth and the symbol of our awakening to our eternal and divine nature. His message was universal and unifying and never exclusive.  I believe that human evolution and its conscious expansion will inevitably lead us to that state.  Beyond the religious dogma, many of us Spiritual But Not Religious seekers (SBNR) wish to establish that true faith and the belief that pure consciousness is nothing but pure love. 

And Pure Love will save humanity from 
its long state of suffering.

I have great hope in the future of the Catholic Church in the hands of Pope Francis, an outstanding humanist, who on Holy Thursday performed the traditional ritual of washing and kissing the feet of twelve Catholic Men, who chose instead twelve Muslim, Hindu, and Christian refugees, eight men and four women.  In his words: “We are brothers, children of the same God, who want to live in Peace, integrated.”

 Amen and Happy Easter to all!


Copyright © 2016 by Wafa Faith Hallam

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