04/01/2026
Dear Light Group,
Growing up in the Midwest, our family went to church every Sunday. As memory serves me, on Easter Sunday, towards the end of the service, people would join hands and almost shout, “Our Christ is arisen! Hallelujah!”
The jubilation sounded a bit forced to me, and being one who tended to overthink things, I thought, “How do you know? How do you know he is arisen? Do you know something I don’t know?”
Over the years, I’ve acquired a different perspective on Easter and the Resurrection, one that would have gotten me in trouble at that St. Andrew’s Church that I attended in my youth. Now I’m seeing the Resurrection as, yes, having occurred with Jesus, but also as being symbolic of the resurrection that can occur in each one of us.
Our personal resurrection is one of resurrecting our own consciousness from the illusional world of personality, of separation, of material desires. Our personal resurrection is a resurrection from the sea of souls blindly following each other into the latest realm of delusion - the latest fad, the latest path of greed, the latest path of hubris, the latest path of hatred, the latest path of aggression.
We needn’t think of our personal resurrection as a final reward for leading a holy life - a sort of graduation present, the bestowal of a degree in spirituality, one moment when finally we are anointed as a holy person.
Instead, we might give ourselves credit for those moments when we have a micro-resurrection. Every time we allow ourselves a gap - a moment when we pause the chatter in our minds and the emotions stirring inside us to calm ourselves, to step back from inner and outer turmoil, to let go of our attachments, to remember the wisdom of the Universal Christ - every one of those moments is a micro-resurrection.
Once we’ve accumulated enough of those micro-resurrections, the full-blown resurrection occurs in us. We have withdrawn our minds from the limitations of our bodies and have united with all-pervading Spirit, with Eternal Life, with the ecstasy of the Divine.
In the interim, let us this Easter give thanks for all the things that bring us those little resurrections, knowing that they are resurrecting us to Eternal Life, Light, Peace, Joy, Beauty.
If you would like a prayer to accompany these Easter reflections, you might try this: “We give thanks to Thee, O Lord, for resurrecting us. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting us from the sepulcher of mortal limitations. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting us from the sepulcher of earthly desires. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting us from habits that block us from the Christ Spirit within. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting us from the tomb of material desires and bodily confinement. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting us from the shroud of selfishness. Lift our souls from the slumber of human consciousness into the superconscious sphere. Lift our souls from earthly desires into the Peace of the Christ. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting our consciousness, that we may more fully know Thee and Thy glory. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting our consciousness so that we may be united with Thy all-pervading Spirit. Thank you, Lord, for resurrecting our consciousness so that our souls may be united with Thy Eternal Life. Uplift us, Lord, that we may purify our consciousness and radiate Infinite Light. Resurrect us, Lord, that we may behold our immortal Self, one with the Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom. Thank you, Lord, making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
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