Easter sunflowers

Even in her wildest dreams, a sunflower seed cannot imagine that she will become a sunflower someday.

She does not even know the meaning of “sunflower.”

All she knows is that she is a seed. She was born a seed, lives as a seed, and will go into the ground as a seed.

Easter is not about a seed going into the ground and coming back out as the same seed that went in.

Easter is the story of a seed becoming a sunflower.

It is not the story of one seed only; it is the story of the First Seed.

It is the start of our own seed stories.

Easter shows us what we will become after we go into the ground.

It is a sign that we are the seeds from which God will grow a new Eden.

The First Seed is risen out of the ground!

Indeed, the First Seed is growing up.

Our own rising out of the ground is soon to come.

Grace and peace.