Alive again!!

I thank You God for most this amazing day For the leaping greenly spirits of trees And a blue true dream of sky And for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes

I who have died am alive again today And this is the sun's birthday This is the birth day of life and of love and wings And of the gay great happening illimitably earth

How should tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, breathing any Lifted from the no of all nothing Human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

Now the ears of my ears awake And now the eyes of my eyes are opened

~e.e. cummings

Resurrection Day Blessings!!

This day we are invited to share in God's eternal joy!

Music: Sons and Daughters (written by Jean Tisserand OFM (Sung by Daughters of Mary) https://youtu.be/Uz9akqofziE

We now enter the season of resurrection living. It is easy to forget that the liturgical season of Easter actually lasts 50 days, from Easter Sunday until Pentecost, and is celebrated as one continuous joyous feast.

In this coming Easter season, you might take some time to consider how you are being invited into Resurrection Living. What would that look like for you? What might help your eyes and ears open and awake? How might you feast on joy?

Look around you. All the earth is singing a resurrection song --

at times subtle and mysterious (it might even feel like dying)~

at other times "in-your-face" and breathtakingly lovely -

but always encouraging us to open just a little bit more to the abundant life Christ offers us.

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody’s voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself. ~Frederick Buechner

In light of what Christ has done, let us go forward into this Easter season knowing ourselves as beloved sons and daughters of the Divine!