In Jesus, God embraced the whole human condition. He lived, ate, bled, sweated, loved, and died, but he overcame death to give us hope and new life. He lives with us now. Easter is the most important celebraiton of our faith. Easter tells us that God is a living God, a God who delights in us, loves us, a God who is always near, never remote. A God who touches all our living and takes us by the hand.
The American poet, Virginia Hamilton Adair, writes in Games with God, "your God is hidden in heaven, they said...How could I make them understnad God often took me by the hand. Then as my tears began to fall, I felt His touch and heard Him call "I never hid from you at all'."
May we discover this Easter time the nearness of God, the God who delights in us.