{"id":535,"date":"2010-04-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/04\/what-i-learned-from-easter-and-1.html"},"modified":"2010-04-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:00:00","slug":"what-i-learned-from-easter-and-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/04\/what-i-learned-from-easter-and-1.html","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned from Easter and Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season, the lesson to be learned for me is that less is more<\/i>,
\nand that sacrifice to God brings freedom and life<\/i>.  This
\nworldwide recession is forcing us to make sacrifices – spend less money
\nand make more, or for many of us even hold onto our job and home,
\npotentially sacrificing the roof over our head and our livelihood.  Many
\npeople are in financial straights; especially people who are older who
\nare seeing their retirement savings<\/a> vanish, and
\nnew homeowners who extended themselves too far into unmanageable
\nmortgages in the reality of a falling real-estate market.  Many are
\nfacing bankruptcy because they have too much debt to bear.  Lots of us
\nhave health problems and don’t have health insurance to cover rising
\nmedical costs.  Some are in the middle of religious or political wars,
\ndodging bullets and bombs, praying to stay alive.<\/p>\n

How are you? 
\nReally – how is your life?  Please post a comment and let us know about
\nhow you are struggling, and what you’ve learned recently.  Please write
\nand tell us, so we know we’re not alone in our struggles and
\nsacrifices.  I am with you, I too have to make a lot of sacrifices and
\nmake significant changes, I’m struggling with some of the same things
\neveryone else is.<\/p>\n

This Easter<\/a> and Passover
\nseason, I’m thinking about how the two holidays are similar, teaching
\nus to follow and depend on God 100%.  Easter to me is about Jesus
\nChrist’s many sacrifices to teach us about God and how he gave His life
\nand accepted the fate of being killed for His teaching about love,
\nkindness and forgiveness.  God was there with Him, protecting Him,
\nloving Him, allowing Him to ultimately transcend death.  Passover, for
\nme, is all about following God and totally relying on Him against
\noppression and evil, sacrificing our own will so that we can follow
\nGod’s leading to the Promised Land of hope and peace.  Although
\ndifferent in history, both are rites of sacrifice, passage, and renewal
\nin God’s hands.<\/p>\n

These religious holidays are celebrated in
\nspringtime, the point in the season that the dead of winter is now over –
\nlast year’s crops are long gone back to the earth, and the seeds of
\nhope are sprouting and living new life from old.<\/p>\n

Easter and
\nPassover teach us hope and renewal, in exchange for our love and
\nsacrifices.  If we follow the path of faith and hope, instead of delving
\ndeeper into our sufferings and hopelessness, the promise of new life,
\nof freedom from earthy mortality and limitations, is given us in
\nabundance.  We don’t understand exactly how life from death may work;
\nyet, it is ours miraculously, only for the price of giving up our
\nsuffering and sinful errors to God, trusting Him to show us the way to
\nthe Promised Land of salvation and infinite life anew.<\/p>\n

Have you
\nput your life in God’s hands?  Have you surrendered to faith and
\nexperienced renewal, new life and salvation?  Please tell us about it,
\nso that we can also be reminded and renewed in God’s love.<\/p>\n

Be
\nsure to return to this post in the new few days and coming weeks, to see
\nwhat others have written in response to you, and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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