RESURRECTION: Rob Bell’s new film

Happy Easter, i.e. “Resurrection Day,” everybody.

My homechunk, Rob Bell, sent me this yesterday – his newest short film titled “Resurrection.”

For more of Rob’s amazing art and stellar teaching, check out Rob’s Web Site and the
Mars Hill Web Site.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a more ridiculously joy-filled, exuberant Easter as I had today, except for maybe back in 1991 when I was attending Jesus People in Chicago and sported ripped jeans and my brand-new Easter tie-dye (I still have it.)

This year, we attended the late service at Little Church by the Sea in Laguna Beach (we had intended to hit both that one and the 6:30 a.m. sunrise service on the fire road above Moulton Meadows park but Mom couldn’t haul her tuckus out of bed in time.) The 10:30 service was packed to the gills. Standing room only. Our bluegrass band led worship, Pastor Jay – face red with rapturous joy (matching his 67-year-old almost-not-a gray-in-it head of ginger hair) preached a simple but powerful salvation message. It was a hoot. Literally. I don’t think I’ve sung that loud in church in years and years.

I am profoundly grateful for the last year of my life with all the audacious grace and unthinkable blessings and change it has brought.

Today was Vasco’s first Easter. Earlier this week (a couple of weeks after his sweet cousin Cora), he prayed with Pastor Clarke to invite Jesus into his heart.  I’m not sure he fully understood what was happening and what he was saying, but I do know this: When we open the door of our hearts to Jesus, even a crack, he rushes right in, sits down at the kitchen counter and starts making peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches. And he never, ever leaves.

Vasco’s Mommy was 10 when she did the same thing (tx to Jimmy Swaggart and a late-night TV broadcast of one of his sermons. See? God has a great sense of humor.)

Life changed in that moment, I’m sure. And it continues to change, evolve and, hopefully, become something worthy of the esteemed title of “Christian.” We walk on …

Easter graces to you all.
GG