Chris Furr - Pastor of Covenant Christian Church in Cary, NC

So you think about the irrepressible nature of life.. the life force. Think about all of the things that life for whatever it means, human life, animal life, plant life, all living things. You think about the innate endurance or the way that when one path is cut off, life will find something else, some other way.

I remember being in costa rica on our honeymoon and we were walking in the rainforest and there’s a tree called the walking palm. And the walking palm lives below the canopy. It’s hard finding life below the canopy because there’s very little light that comes through. But the canopy is always changing, there are trees that are falling, the normal pattern of where the light hits the floor changes occasionally. So the walking palm actually moves on the forest floor. Roots shoot out the front of it and gradually over time, it moves to find where light is. And that was stunning to me. Just the evolutionary genius of that… that life can move until it finds what it needs to sustain itself.

To give the language of the church to that.. we would say that’s the language of resurrection: that God is so intent on bringing life to the earth that it’s like trying to hold something under the water that won’t be sunk. In the summer when you’re playing in the pool and you’re trying to push a ball under the water and it just keeps sliding out from under your hand and back to the surface, that’s the message of resurrection.