He Is Risen, and So Are You

The Wild Reed’s 2023 Holy Week series concludes with a fourth excerpt from Marianne Williamson’s 2004 book The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (To start at the beginning of this series, click here.)

There is passion to the crucifixion, but there is passion to the resurrection as well. It cannot be seen with physical eyes, however, for the emergence of a reborn self is not a material occurrence. You have the same eyes, but there is a new light in them. You have the same brain, but it operates differently. You have the same heart, but it is beating with [God’s transforming presence and power] now. And the resurrection is not a moment but a pattern. For every two steps into the light, we might fall one step back into darkness. But once we are on the way, once we have glimpsed the One who has promised to take us there, there is no real going back.

It doesn’t matter what anyone says or does to try to stop you. You’re on your way to a brand-new life, not just for yourself but for others as well. You are not a martyr; you’re a teacher of love. You have seen the light, and you are walking toward it.

Just know who you are and Who lives within you. He is risen, and so are you.

– Marianne Williamson
Excerpted from The Gift of Change:
Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
HarperCollins, 2004
pp. 192-193

For previous installments in this series, see:
• From Spiritual Death to Rebirth
• A Vortex of the Miraculous
• Tomb Time

See also the previous The Wild Reed posts:
• Jesus Our Guide to Mystical Love – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
• The Two Entwined Events of the Easter Experience
• Resurrection in an Emerging Universe
• Resurrection: A New Depth of Consciousness
• A Hallmark of the Resurrected Life
• Jesus: The Revelation of Oneness
• The Resurrected Jesus
• And What of Resurrection?
• Jesus: The Breakthrough in the History of Humanity
• To Believe in Jesus
• Resurrection: Beyond Words, Dogmas and All Possible Theological Formulations
• The Cosmic Christ: Brother, Lover, Friend, Divine and Tender Guide
• The Passion of Christ – Jesus Appears to Mary
• The Passion of Christ – Jesus Appears to His Friends
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Marianne Williamson
• Chadwick Boseman and That “Heavenly Light”
• Being the Light
• The Soul of a Dancer
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• Aristotle Papanikolaou on How Being Religious is Like Being a Dancer
• A Prayer for Dancers

Related Off-site Link:
The Transformative Power of Holy Days – Marianne Williamson (Transform, April 9, 2023).

Image: Dancer unknown.