I look out my window into a dreary, gray, rainy Saturday, flowering bushes and trees ready to burst into bloom.
The past two days have been filled with acts of remembrance focusing on the Passion. I broke bread and shared wine with the faithful on Maundy Thursday. Yesterday I reflected on those three terrible hours on the tree and the beauty in the words, "It is finished."
Tomorrow I will greet that happy morning which Christ's triumph over death. There will be music and flowers and trumpets and little girls in pretty dresses and feasting and joy.
Today seems awkward.I'm not quite sure what is appropriate, how I should behave as I wait in the space between the grief of Good Friday and the joy of Easter Sunday.
What should I do today?
Do I continue in sorrow?
Is it appropriate to have fun?
What does faithful Christian living look like as I wait for all things to be made new?
Today I look out my window into a dreary, gray, rainy Saturday, flowering bushes and trees ready to burst into bloom and think this day, this space between, feels an awful lot like real life.
4 comments:
Nancy, I know what you mean. But at the same time the beauty of it all is that we KNOW how the story ends. We KNOW He is alive and that tomorrow is all about joy, so I think it's fine for us to enjoy today in the anticipation of what we already know happens tomorrow!
I echo Gaby's words--we carry this joy always. But the feelings at Eastertide--the up and down of the Story--oh how wonderful that we can still feel them, still get caught up in this Beloved truth that has set us free.
I wait with you, Nancy.
And tomorrow, we jump for joy.
I have been focusing on the Passion and Good Friday too, and I'm totally READY to party tomorrow.
I don't know why we Christians tend to wrap it all into one day, the cross the burial and the resurrection...I am enjoying taking time for each, and trying to practice Lent and going to a Seder Supper have been awesome, and have made me MORE grateful that we do have hope and joy. WHOO!
p.s. I've eaten too much candy already. Boodle.
I have thought about this Saturday thing too.
I have always tried to at least have any and all prep, however that looks year to year, complete so that I'm not out in the stores . Usually it's one of the first see and chat with all the neighbours day, and that feels significant in it's own way.
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