It is only over time that we discern its impact in and around us. My friend Julie has a very rocky marriage. Coming from a tough background, she is angry, needy and demanding. They are Christians. They are very unhappy.
Resurrection is their hope.
In mentoring Julie, my single most constant counsel to her is to lay everything down herself and the hopes, dreams and expectations that have been nurtured deep inside her for most of her life, not only those for herself, but for her husband, her marriage and her children as well. Counsel such as this flies in the face of every- thing foisted upon us by the hedonistic world in which we live. I dare not. I dare not. As I have lain down my own hopes and dreams for myself and those I love, I have seen the power of Christ's resurrection not just in my life but in their lives as well.