This morning as I was driving to work I heard a commercial for a class to help you live a “life uninterrupted.” Now on most days I long for this experience and would hope that everyone could have a peaceful life where interruptions didn’t seem like interruptions however this morning that statement just didn’t resonate with me.

Here we find ourselves just a few days from Holy Week and I wonder how often do we live Holy Week “uninterrupted?” How many Easters have gone by where the only things that makes us feel uncomfortable is how much candy we have eaten. How often has Easter given us a warm and fuss feeling because we surround ourselves with fuzzy bunnies, colorful eggs, pretty flowers and a graceful resurrection? How many Easters have been uninterrupted?

So this morning, as I heard this commercial, I got to thinking…if we are living in holy week and waiting for Easter our lives better be interrupted. If we don’t feel, well, inconvenienced at Easter than we haven’t heard the message. Sure, the resurrection is a celebration, a celebration of the greatest gift to humanity, he sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross. This message doesn’t actually call us to feel warm and fuzzy inside. When we fully participate in Easter our lives get interrupted by the call of Jesus upon our lives.  We are inconvenienced by the call to respond to war peacefully, by the call to see the hunger on the streets around us, the call to open our hearts to everyone around us regardless of faith, race, sex, gender or any other divisive generalization we choose to hold true. We are called to transform our lives.

We are called to transform our lives and not just one Easter, every Easter as we remember the resurrection, we are called to look deep in side our lives, souls and deep in side our faith and be transformed. Easter interrupts our lives in the most inconvenient of all ways. Let us take joy in this unsettling, let us take peace in this Easter celebration knowing that our life is going to be forever transformed.