Dear Friends in Christ

Holy Week and Easter are behind us.  But the Spirit of Easter remains with us!   

Easter Sunday is but the doorway into a new season of life and living.  We are Easter people for a lifetime!

So it is, the church has given us the season of Eastertide.  Eastertide – I like the name, and I especially like its second syllable, tide.  For, like the ocean tide itself, Easter ebbs and flows with varying degrees of power and reach in our lives.  Some high tides are stronger and higher than others; some are lower and weaker.  Sometimes Easter’s tide – or Spirit – touches us powerfully and deeply; other times it hardly touches – or doesn’t even touch – us at all.  We need a season of exposure to Easter’s shoreline for its “seas” to  reach us and become a stronger force for resurrection in our lives and world! 

I hope you’ll find times and ways to walk Easter’s shoreline in this season – and beyond.  I hope you’ll even intentionally wade into – or go for a swim in – Easter’s “waters.”  

So, too, do I hope we’ll walk “Easter’s shoreline” as Christ’s church here in Salem!  Maybe we’ll even wade – or take a dip together – in its “waters” of new life!  We’ll see…

Blessings of Eastertide,
Pastor Ed