It’s all coming so fast: the push to college graduation, the pollen dive into Spring, the walk through this Holy Week. Today’s Maundy Thursday leads inevitably to the solemness of tomorrow’s Good Friday. But even in that darkness we rush to Easter, our sights trained squarely on the coming joy. We know how the story ends, we Christians, and it’s somehow less awful if we somehow skip straight there.
(Is there any other explanation for the misnomer Good Friday?)
There’s an extra detail to mind this time around. Saturday night we’ll also see a full moon–the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. It’s called the Paschal Moon, and it tells us Easter will fall on the next Sunday. How fabulous that this year it just happens to be the very next day.
I’m fascinated by the earth and sky, the moon and stars and how they keep us in time. I’ll be watching.
And I’ll say a little prayer of Thanksgiving for the appearance of the Paschal Moon that comes to signal this sunrise–the one that brings our joy as the light of lights shines bright over the Earth, and once again, we receive the grace of the greatest miracle of them all.
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Amen.
Yes. Amen.
Very nice… I am in constant amazement at the simple yet highly complex nature of the gift of living on Earth.
Jeff
PREACH IT, BROTHER. I could not agree more. Thank you, Jeff!