Throughout this past year and in the time going forward, it means everything to know that the Lord is with us, and that his rod and staff comfort us. We are called to share this comfort with one another, to help each other find and go down the right paths, to wipe away one another’s tears.
So, what if Easter is about letting go of some of our concrete expectations and understandings, and learning to see deeper connections and patterns and meanings, the timeless way, a quality without a name in our faith beneath its familiar forms?
Jesus teaches his disciples and us that the Good News isn’t good if it stays in a locked room. Are we ready to go out and share and be the Good News? Are we ready to be apostles?
But if we begin with terror and amazement we’ve known, we can enter the redemption story from right here. Because there never was a more holy age than ours. Our strange pandemic age included.