Since last year I’ve been trying to formulate the meaning of Easter, at least for myself. Last year’s Easter meaning was Easter in Exile and Loneliness.
Last year, I spent Easter in a foreign place, away from my close friends and families. Away from the festivity of Jogjakarta, in a small coal-mining town of Sangatta, East Kalimantan.
This year I’m no longer in East Kalimantan and I’m celebrating Easter with my loved ones around me. But that doesn’t mean that I’m free of pain and probelms. Luckily, I can signify the meaning of of this year’s Easter.
And my Easter meaning is: “Celebrating Easter in pain, in hopes for an Easter miracle.”
Why in pain? The reason is that I’ve been having a very severe case of toothache. It started in Wednesday and hasn’t ceased until this very minute. The worst pain I felt was on Thursday morning until aftern
oon. I couldn’t sleep, eat, or talk. I’ve taken several kinds of pain killers but it done no good to me. Those painkillers only stalled my pain and agony. I was so desperate that day and could only scream in pain, when suddenly I passed out. When had I woken up, my toothache was gone–well, not totally. Then I prayed to GOD to take away my toothache, at least through out the Maundy Thursday mass.
GOD answered my prayers by giving me the chance to follow the Maundy Thursday mass solemnly.
From the pain that I’ve been having yesterday and through out today, I can conclude that however painful I was, Christ’s pain is more unbearable. He’s taken all the sins of the world upon his shoulder, yet he said nothing or complained to noone.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY
