A Christian Plus Observes Easter

I have described myself as Christian Plus because people tend to feel more comfortable when they can categorize things or people. And as a Christian, this is a most sacred time, the resurrection of the main manifestation of the religion. The story of the Ascension has close parallels to the other spiritual teachings that I have attracted to myself. And that's what it is. The Law of Attraction says that I will attract what I want and I have been on this spiritual search for quite some time now.

As we go back in the story from the Gospels, what Jesus goes through closely follows life. You have successes and challenges and you do extraordinary things to overcome them. Not miracles as laid out in the Bible, but we create small miracles every day along our journey. We see suffering. We experience suffering. All the while, we understand that we are children of the Creator. And, if we can, we teach others how to achieve their own happiness through the spirit. When you live life through gratitude, your vibrational frequency allows you to manifest you desires. Sounds like the same thing Jesus taught about prayer, doesn't it?

Then there is the Resurrection itself. As Christians believe, Jesus died and on the third day, arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven to be with God, the Creator, his Father. Now what are the metaphysical teachings about what and who we are? All the teachings on the subject tell us that we are energy, or soul, inhabiting this physical body. In other words, we are formless inside the form. When this form, which we all understand to be temporary, is finished, or dies, we return to the formless. Physicists tell us that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed. Now apply that to the Resurrection and you will see the parallel. We die, or more accurately the bodies dies, and we return to the energy state from which we came. See the similarities?

So as we're in the season of Easter, the Christian faiths observe it as the proof of the Messiah. Muslims see Jesus as a great prophet. The Jewish faith celebrates passover at this time as Jesus is not part of their religion, but they do observe an important time in their religion. For a man who says he's Christian Plus, Jesus showed us behavior that we try to emulate to this day. Through the Gospels  wed see both the religious and the spiritual journey to the future. This collection of skin, bone and muscle will wither and we will be transformed to our higher formless selves.

I mean no disrespect to the other Easter icon, but I like that thought better than the weird rabbit that leaves eggs around the house. His chocolate replicas, though? I'll have a bite of that, thank you.