The Question that Opens the Tomb

Will you pause to listen for Love?

Shaping the future in moments of uncertainty

Today is Good Friday.

Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus. To the people standing there that day, it must have looked like the collapse of everything they had hoped for.

They watched events unfold that no one could stop. Political power, religious authority, and public fear converged in one moment. The future they imagined seemed to end at a cross.

I imagine what it must have felt like to stand there and watch. Lately, the world carries a similar feeling.

Many people sense that something familiar is shifting beneath our feet, even if we cannot yet see what will replace it. As military operations continue in the Middle East and alliances among nations shift, analysts are openly discussing the possibility of a new world order emerging. Long-standing structures of power are being questioned. Nations are recalculating their roles. Assumptions about how the world works are beginning to give way.

Moments like this always stir uncertainty. Uncertainty awakens fear and asks the question, “How do I make sure this turns out the way I need it to?”

Fear tightens its grip.Fear tries to manage the future.Fear attempts to force events toward a preferred outcome.

Yet, another question is available to us. In the book I am finishing, WHOLE, I explore how the question we ask in moments of uncertainty shapes the reality that unfolds next. At the center of the book is this simple observation:

Fear asks, “How do I make sure this turns out the way I need it to?”

Love asks, “What is the highest expression of Truth here, and how do I align with it?”

These two questions lead consciousness in completely different directions.

Fear moves toward control.

Love moves toward alignment.

The life of Jesus reveals what that alignment looks like. Standing before political authority, religious judgment, and the threat of violence, Jesus did not attempt to manipulate events or secure a safer outcome. His attention remained centered in the presence of the Divine within and around him.

From the outside, that alignment looked like defeat. History later revealed something else unfolding.

The resurrection story is often treated as a miracle that happened once in history. Mystics across traditions see a deeper meaning. They understand the resurrection as a revelation about consciousness itself.

The life of Jesus shows what becomes possible when a human being lives in complete alignment with Divine Truth. Resurrection reveals an awareness that recognizes Life itself cannot be destroyed.

From this perspective, the Easter story reveals something about humanity. What awakened in Jesus is the same Divine awareness that humanity is gradually learning to live from. Each generation moves a little further beyond fear, domination, and separation toward a deeper realization of Oneness.

Moments of upheaval often become the doorway where that shift begins.

Good Friday represents such a threshold.

The collapse of familiar forms can feel frightening. Our minds rush to preserve what it knows. Life continues reorganizing itself. The same may be happening in our world on a larger scale today.

Periods of upheaval expose the fears operating beneath our systems and institutions. They also open space for a different question to guide what comes next.

What does aligning with Love mean in a moment like this?

It begins with a pause.

Fear urges immediate reaction. Alignment begins with remembering the presence of the Divine within life itself. From that awareness, a different response becomes possible.

We can ask:

What response expresses the most Truth here?What action expresses the most compassion? What choice reflects wisdom rather than fear?

Sometimes the answer requires courage. Sometimes restraint. Sometimes speaking. Sometimes listening.

Every authentic response begins in the same place: remembering that Love is the deepest reality of the universe.

Good Friday invites us to look honestly at the crosses of our time: conflict, division, fear, and uncertainty. People once stood at a cross believing everything meaningful had been lost. History shows something different: that moment marked the beginning of transformation.

Resurrection began there. 

Humanity stands at many such crosses today. The invitation remains the same. The future unfolds from the question we choose to live from, both personally and collectively.

Fear asks how to control the outcome. Love asks how to align with Truth.

Those who stood at the cross that day believed the story was ending. The stone had not yet been rolled away. Jesus’ transformation had already begun because He lived from Love.

As we move through global transformation, will you pause to listen for Love?