Resurrecting the meaning of Easter

What is the meaning of Easter? Is it colouring hard-boiled eggs then hiding them around the yard and taking small children with you to hunt for these eggs and awarding children with sweets and chocolate?

Not for everyone.

Christianity has many different facets and many different cultures celebrate the holy days in their own ways. Visit a Catholic church in the USA and you might find the priest outside with a basket of chocolate bunnies.

Take a trip to Finland and you will find people burning bonfires to keep the evil spirits away, most especially those evil witches flying around.

What do we do to celebrate in Namibia though? Church for most and a special meal with close family and friends.

Maybe some will participate in an egg-hunt and some pray and sing.

But what are we celebrating? What does the resurrection of Jesus Christ mean for us human beings in the world today?

Nowadays, we have saviours all over the world. From Bushiri to Trump, people of the world are either becoming more excited about these saviours or just tired of hearing about another saviour.

Easter also marks a change in season.

In Namibia the seasons change from wet to dry with the coming of Easter.

In the northern half of the world, the seasons change from winter to spring. New life is meant to be celebrated but what new life can we celebrate in Namibia?

We survived a potential water crisis and now are drowning in efundja. What will we do to secure water for when the next drought comes? What new life is being pumped into Namibia to make it grow stronger? Have we truly put the boot down on tenders? Has Calle reigned in the spending? Will Hage come out of hiding and settle the land issue?

There is a reason we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus every year.

We need to remember the sacrifice because we have to sacrifice in our life in order to be reborn again.

These traditions remind us to stay on course. Let us look at our course critically and grow stronger each Easter.