Easter Blessings, throughout the Season

Good News can come through emptiness 

Mary didn’t know Jesus was risen
She turned to a stranger 
The person who was tending the dirt
And asked for help

Do you see the Easter moment

It’s hiding right there

It’s not in the race before
No trumpets or proclamations in John

It starts in a moment 
of hoping for hope
of reaching out 
in planting seeds
After all God was the first Gardener
Is it little wonder that 
Jesus is once again on his knees 
in the dirt

And Mary reaches out to him
Easter has started
There in the dark
Even before she knows it

The resurrection 
starts in those moments
of planting and tending

and then slowly
unfurl 
for days
months
as long as we need
to turn
our mourning
into dancing

Here’s hoping 
you have those moments
Throughout the 
Easter season

Good News can
Come even 
through 
moments 
of emptiness

Creation came
through Holy
Darkness

I hope you 
Experience 
that this 
Easter Season 

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Author: katyandtheword

Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ. She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible. "Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal. Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.

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