Post Easter Onus

Well, it's the week after Easter.  We sat with Jesus and had dinner on Thursday.  We walked with him to his death on Friday at Coolidge Park.  On Sunday we awoke early and visited the empty tomb at the Duck Pond.  We celebrated Christ's resurrection with songs and prayers and words of Scripture at church later that day. 

As I'm reflecting on it, in the aftermath of Holy Week, I can't help but wonder:  What's changed?  We had great attendance at each of these services.  Enthusiastic participation.  Heartfelt stirrings of the Spirit.  But now it seems everyone is carrying on, same as normal. 

Is that the way it is every Monday?  We leave the presence of God's community, tune out the hymns, forget the words, and go about our lives?  Where's the lasting change? 

Maybe that's not how God changes us.  Maybe God takes weeks added together, even months and years, to move us from point A to point B. 

True, but perhaps there is an onus placed on us to take the resurrection message we hear at Easter and proclaim it every week. 

Maybe that onus includes keeping that spark alive through daily participation in prayer and community.

And maybe, just maybe, this is what God expects from each of us.  Not just our pastor.  Not just the 'spiritual.'  But all of us, because we are all called 'children of God.'