Fripp on Easter

[acroyear]

The power, for me, is not so much in the crucifixion as how it was transformed. In another context, perhaps it might be said that the greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.

We begin again. And we begin again, again.

No one who has any sense of themselves can rest, for long, in seeing what they are; noticing their impulses, motivations & the mechanics of their life. Now, there is hope. I don't find the notion, of a once-and-for-all payment for the human race's failings, to be particularly helpful. The Dude did The Gig, and now I am redeemed for all time seems more like an invitation to pour another glass of whistle & raise a toast to the work & suffering of someone else.

Something happened in the Easter event, and its effects are well above my frequency range. But what I do receive is, more like, an invitation to participate in an ongoing process. Taking up the cross is part of it, one stage in the process. Now, a different stage of the process is underway. A beginning again. A triumph is being celebrated.

-- Robert Fripp, April 14, 2004

That pretty much sums up what I feel as well. Easter isn't something that happened once that we re-enact. Easter happens. Daily. Hourly. If one is willing to pay attention to it, to accept it, to experience it. Its something one does, not something one receives. What we received is the Grace of God. What we do with it is continual, ongoing, perpetual beyond the grave.