I was humbled and honored to play the lead role in our church's annual Easter drama/musical, "This Day of Resurrection". The hour-long production has me portraying various episodes from the Gospels, depicting the final week of Jesus' earthly life: excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount, being confronted by Pharisees, showing love and compassion to a blind man, forgiving the sins of an adulterous woman, washing the feet of my disciples, sharing final thoughts with those same men at a final meal, praying fervently in the Garden of Gethsemane (and singing a heart-felt plea/solo "Not my will, but thine be done"), and then I was placed on a wooden cross while bloody and humiliated. Of course, it's no spoiler to tell you that we reenacted the resurrection and ascension, after my disciples gently laid me in the tomb. "He is Risen!" Good news, indeed!
This experience has definitely given me a new appreciation and understanding of Jesus' absolute focus and intention, as he willingly gave himself for his people. I will cherish this renewed sense of identification with the Lord Jesus Christ in the coming year, and nurture the love and compassion pouring out from my own life- as I attempted to faithfully represent these same characteristics for the drama."I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." --Galatians 2:20
