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ANERLEY METHODIST CHURCH
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Rev Graham Cocking
Dear Friends,
Have you seen a daffodil lately? One that is out I mean!
Daffodils, the heralds of Spring, the flowers that normally brighten up Mothering Sunday, all gone missing! I walked through the park this morning and ‘hosts of golden daffodils’, are poking their stunted heads to the heavens, waking but not yet woken. The colour, the vibrancy, the trumpeting of Spring is not there.
The daffodil is so important because it is a herald; because it can be seen; because it uses its very being to shout forth a message’ Spring is here’, ‘New life is upon us’. The darkness of the winter is past and the vibrancy, new life and colour of Spring is upon us.
Have you thought of Easter lately?
The daffodil is also the flower of Easter. What if it is not there? What if it is stunted, not its’ normal colourful vibrant self? What or whom is going to trumpet the triumph of Easter after the dark days of Good Friday?
There is no choice, it is up to us, we have to be that herald, to display that colour in our being. We have to shine the glorious message of Easter in and through what we do and say. We have to be heralds of ‘new life’ so that all can see the old order is gone and the new order is rampant. We have to trumpet the Good News - ‘Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!
Dust off those smiles, regenerate that laughter, look happy, show in your life, in your very being the message of Easter, that death has been conquered and new life begun.
And if the daffodils do come out for Easter don’t think you don’t need to bother, for two heralds are better than one, and many trumpets make a greater sound than one.
Be ready, be a herald, trumpet the true, vibrant, colourful message:
‘Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!
Graham