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Catholic Charities USA
Easter Sunday
Readings of the Day
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"For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to
rise from the dead." The last line from Easter
Sunday's Gospel. Even as the story unfolded, with
disciples seeing that the stone had been rolled back and the burial
cloths set aside; even as John tells us they "saw and
believed." They saw and believed, but did not yet
understand.
Ringing any bells? God is indeed good that my belief does not
rely on my understanding. As my wife will attest, I barely
understand the technology we use in our home. If my faith in a
God of life over death depended on my ability to understand the
resurrection - "understand" in the way we usually
employ that word, to rationally and clearly grasp the meaning,
subtleties and implications of a thing - then I would likely be
in a darker place. A weight is lifted as I reread that
passage. I can set logic down and instead "see and
believe," which is to say, know with my heart.
Layla is a Middle Eastern immigrant who has been my client for a few
years through a grant for people struggling with cancer diagnosis and
treatment. Often when she calls, usually asking for help with
groceries, her voice conveys a depth of fatigue that is hard to
hear. On those days, I know that her difficult treatments have
the upper hand. This week, though, she called concerned about
relicensing her car, which is her means of traveling to specialized
medical care on the other side of the state. The regional toll
system (unfamiliar to us small-town Spokanites) had tagged her car
several times over the months on toll roads without the toll
transponder to pay the way, and now she had significant fines to be
addressed before she can renew her tags. I could have used grant
funds, but instead spent my afternoon on the phone with bureaucrats
- helpful bureaucrats, to be sure - advocating for
her. The result was forgiveness of the fines and a clear pathway
to renewing her tags, which meant, to her, continued access to
care. I could hear the smile in her voice.
I do not understand how God consistently and persistently works toward
resurrection, and makes life happen where before there was
death. The mystery of this brings me peace because I do not have
to understand it. I cannot begin to understand how some of our
clients emerge from despair and trauma into stability and hope.
I cannot begin to understand how God will make us whole from the
losses we suffer in our own lives, losses that mark us for rest of our
lives. At my best, I go to Easter to see and believe, but not to
understand. We see that God's ancient pattern of life from
death, light from darkness, is THE pattern. We will spend our
lives learning to see and live this pattern, sometimes failing,
sometimes doubting, always being human.
Please know of my gratitude for this community of care that gathers
virtually in prayer and support. May your celebration of Easter
be joyful; may you be confident in God's great love for you,
occasionally giving yourself permission not to need to understand the
how and the why of it.
Scott Cooper is Director of Parish Social Ministry at Catholic
Charities Eastern Washington and a member of the CCUSA Parish Social
MInistry Leadership Team.
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