April 24, 2024
Easter is a season of 50 days, not one. It is a season. A season longer than Lent. Longer than Advent. Longer than Christmastide. Longer than Epiphany (most of the time).

Every one of these fifty days, for which we are now at the midpoint, is an invitation to focus attention on resurrection. What has emerged from the sacred, silent, and dark places?

Look back and ahead.

What has been healing and what has been healed? What healing has brought new understanding, new insights, new ways of being:
for you?
for your family?
for the community?
for this world?

How are these new ways of being empowered, shaped, strengthened, and settled by the characteristics of God’s command of love: humility, vulnerability, acceptance, trust, and wonder? These characteristics that Jesus embodied, and through God made Jesus newly alive. How are you newly alive? How are we?

Blessed Eastertide.
Easter Blessing
an Eastertide poem
David Whyte
The blessing of the morning light to you,
may it find you even in your invisible
appearances, may you be seen to have risen
from some other place you know and have known
in the darkness and that that carries all you need.

May you see what is hidden in you
as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter,
may that hidden darkness be your gift to give,
may you hold that shadow to the light
and the silence of that shelter to the word of the light,
may you join all of your previous disappearances
with this new appearance, this new morning,
this being seen again, new and newly alive.

—-

© David Whyte
From EASTER BLESSING
In Memoriam John O’Donohue
In
THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD
Poetry by David Whyte
APRIL 2018 © David Whyte and Many Rivers Press

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Worship Ministry Meeeting TONIGHT
Wednesday, 4/24/2024, 6pm

Guest Preacher The Reverend Lisa Bornt Sunday. 4/28/2024

Pentecost! Join us for a celebratory service Sunday 5/19/2024