Resurrection is one of those "religious-y" words that we tend to put on a shelf, right there next to words like atonement, righteousness, and incarnation. It's not one of those words that you hear in line at the post office, for example. And yet, the Greek word for resurrection, anastasis, simply means "getting up again; awakening." It is an ordinary word and an ordinary occurrence; it means, in Greek parlance, that we literally resurrect ourselves when some power within us wakens us every morning.
How might our lives change if we considered every morning's awakening as an anastasis: a grace-filled opportunity to wake up and be a new creation. A new day to be wholly changed and transformed -- even when our lives, up to that one moment of awakening, have been spent simply wandering int he dark?
Anastasis: its the opposite of stasis -- the opposite of staying the same.
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