This morning I have listened to my favorite “resurrection song” several times: U2’s ‘Window in the Skies’ which includes this powerful opening verse:

The shackles are undone

The bullet’s quit the gun

The heat that’s in the sun

Will keep us when theres none

The rule has been disproved

The stone it has been moved

The GRAVE is now a groove

All debts are removed

The song moves to the repeating over and over, “Oh can’t you see what love has done? Oh can’t you see what love has done? Oh can’t you see what love has done?”

In the next verse U2 provides their own Christus Victor wherein love dupes death:

Love makes strange enemies

Makes love where love may please

The soul and its striptease

Hate brought to its knees

The sky over our head

We can reach it from our bed

You let me in your heart

And out of my head

At the end of the song there is a mixture of confession and invitation:

I know I hurt you and I made you cry

Did everything but murder you and I

But love left a window in the skies

And to love I rhapsodize

Oh can’t you see what love has done

To every broken heart

Oh can’t you see what love has done

For every heart that cries

Love left a window in the skies

And to love I rhapsodize

Oh can’t you see

And that is what we celebrate in part. On Resurrection Sunday the Love of God in Christ has provided a window into the heavens. In the midst of all the death and hate we see that in Christ there is a window into heaven. The rule of the empire has been disproven. The stone at the tomb has been moved. The grave is an empty groove. All our debts have been removed.

Amen.