Living Your Resurrection Story

I’m talking about the resurrection stories of folks who are making their way into a new life after a separation or divorce, or who are finally coming to see a glimmer of hope in the middle of trudging through a long dark tunnel of grief.

I’m talking about the kinds of resurrection stories that are often shared in recovery ministries, where persons talk about finding new life after facing their addictions or compulsions.

Resurrection stories are all over the place, if we have eyes to see and ears to hear. Just this past week, I read a news blurb about a fellow out in San Antonio named Doug Ruch. He has prostate cancer, and in January he learned that it is terminal. He was told he has maybe a year and a half left to live. He decided he wanted to spend whatever time he has left volunteering to help people in all 50 states. That became his new life

mission.

So he raised some funds, packed all his stuff in his 2017 Chevrolet Malibu, and hit the road from Texas headed north. He arrived in Seattle and volunteered at food banks, senior centers, and other service organizations. He’s now making his way from state to state, and God bless him, I hope he makes it to all fifty!

But the thing that struck me is that he says he feels so invigorated—even in spite of his diagnosis—that he wakes up every morning feeling like he’s been “shot out of a cannon.”

That sounds like resurrection to me!

I don’t know about you, but Doug inspires me. I wonder if you’re wondering, like me, what would you want to do if you knew that your time left in this life were limited? What would get you waking up every morning feeling like you’ve been shot out of a cannon? And if you’re not already living your resurrection story, why on earth would you put it off even one more day?