Easter vibes!

As everybody probably knows.. it's Easter!!
Of course Easter is sunday and monday, but thursday friday and saturday are part of it too.
I grew up with catholic belief and i know think i'm old enough to decide what i want to do with it.
I sing and that's why i have been in church thursday and i will be saturday. But isn't the friday one of the most important days of Easter??
Jesus can't be alive again if he hadn't died before.. And that's what happened at that friday. So i also went to church this evening. Not with my brother because he thinks one time is more than enough and not with my mother because she's feeling not so well and she has been laying on her bed the whole day. I went with my dad and i liked it!

Easter is more than just a man dying, like Christmas is more than a baby that was born 2000 years ago. Easter is the party of believing that good things will always win from the bad things. That life will win from death and that love will win from hate. And that's what i like about believing. Seeing it so positive, believing that one man died for all of us and knowing that it isn't over when we lose somebody. Believing in a life after death. I know a lot of people don't believe there's something like "heaven". I don't know yet... I refuse to believe that all people we lost are really gone. I refuse to believe that we will never see the people we loved so much again.

What do i believe? I don't know... But in a letter i wrote to my aunt before she was burnt, i wrote if she wanted to send all my love to my Grandad. I really believe, or i want to believe that we will see all those people again. That we will talk with them again and that everything is better there. That's what i hope at least for them. That "heaven" is even better than life here! That people aren't killing each other there, that people have the same rights there, that people aren't hungry and thirsty and that people live with love and peace there. Maybe it's a bit wishful thinking, but that's how i would like to see the world.

So maybe it's not wishful thinking... Maybe that's Easter's message. Who would think that Jesus would stand up again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Who would think Jesus was able to make people walking, hearing and seein again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Easter maybe wants to tell us that things of which we have always believed they weren't true or even impossible aren't impossible if you believe in it, believe in yourself and human-being.

Jesus was a wonderful man. He opened eyes of so many people. He was such a normal man, like we all are and i think he showed the most important thing for Christians. That most important thing should be important to all people and i think it actually IS important for a lot of people who don't believe. I'm talking about helping other people and threat them the way you want to be threated. Jesus has said, in Dutch:

Heb de ander lief zoals uzelf, want de ander is uzelf. Behandel anderen zoals je zelf behandeld zou willen worden.

Or in English: Love the other like yourself, because the other is yourself. Threat others like you would like to be threated yourself.
If everybody would do that, there would be no more fighting and no more killing. Human-rights would be respected everywhere and racism, discrimination and hate would no more exist.

That is for me the message of believing and christianity. Believing that the world would be better if you follow the way of Jesus, and act as much as you can like he did.
Making the world better and try to begin with that in your own small community.

A better world starts with yourself, Marloes