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 

Solstice

On cozy nights
when the dark is long
I am reminded
that sleep is good
that cats know how to rest
and our bodies are more like gardens
then machines

As solstice comes
we celebrate

That seasons
change

We don’t have to be
stuck
there is beauty
in the creative
womb of darkness

In the peeping stars
the quiet snows
the gentler winters of the South

The Axis
on which the world turns
reminds us
that humanity celebrates
this
holy time
in so many beautiful ways

So Cozy Solstice
Blessed Rest
May you have spaces of Restoration
Sanctuaries of acceptance
And moments to just be

As we welcome in
the gentle rhythms
of what is yet to come

Feel free to share/adapt/use with credit to Pastor Katy “KatyandtheWord”

Life Breath

Breathe in: God you are with Me
Breathe out: Be with me God

It is a serious thing
Oliver
Comma
Mary says
To be alive
On this fresh morning

Is a serious thing

Because we know the world
is still broken
But listen a bird is singing
the sun breaks through the cloud
And the children are asking
Impertinent
and true questions
that break through the mire

Startling a laugh
because evil is ridiculous
and life is breathlessnessly

wonderful

We are seriously alive
taking in the pneuma
That refills our souls

As I remind myself that
asking for help
is a hope-filled
Community affirming act

And that repair
Respair
Resurrection
is what I believe after all

Most days

Feel free to use/share/adapt with credit to Pastor Katy Stenta “KatyandtheWord”

sun rising over the mountains art by Shelby Thane “It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.” Mary Oliver