How Do You Practice New Life & Easter When the World’s On Edge? How Easter Is Just Beginning & is the Real New Year

I water the Easter lilies on Day 3 of Eastertide.  I confess: Have I sometimes been far too quick to put away all the celebration decorations, because maybe somewhere, somehow, there’s been a part of me that considers what we’ve been celebrating is more of an optional decoration in our life – instead of a reality to be sustained and actually lived? But the whole world feels a bit on edge, and now, maybe more than ever, how do we practice new life — as the center of the practice of our fatih? “Resurrection Sunday is more than a day to celebrate, resurrection power is away of life to be sustained on all the days after.”  Resurrection Sunday is more than a day to celebrate; resurrection power is away of life to be sustained on all the days after.  And as I make Resurrection buns on Monday morning, and again on Tuesday morning — because isn’t the tomb still empty? — as I leave the Easter Tree up, as I commit to sustaining the season of Eastertide, that 50-day season from Resurrection Sunday to Pentecost Sunday, I keep thinking of what Mary, and the disciples, said on Resurrection Sunday: “I have seen […]