Dear Friends in Christ,

Some beautiful Spring days have followed last week’s cool, gray stretch of rain! Such days of sunlit, blue skies and comfortable temperatures along with growing yellowish-green leaves covering barren trunks, branches, and twigs raise my spirits. What do such days do for you?

Of course, these days won’t last. Temperatures will become hotter, maturing leaves will turn greener, and, soon, only the memory of Spring’s precious, fleeting moments will remain.

So, it is with Easter. We’re now in the second half of Eastertide’s 50 days. If you’re like me you still remember the music of Easter Sunday as well as the beauty and aroma of its flowers. But these are all fading. And the question is: into what kind of Easter people will we mature?

We’ll always be Easter children of God and Christ’s church. But, in our time ahead on earth, amidst so much social disease, dying, and decay, what new life might spring forth from us for the benefit of the world around us?

Blessings of Life-raising Living!
Pastor Ed