April 10, 2020

Episode 50 - Finding Easter Hope in Difficult Days

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Easter feels different this year, doesn’t it? The loss of a tangible place to come together in community feels like a loss. Is this how the disciples felt when Jesus died on the cross? Did they feel alone, scared, and helpless?

Join us as we discuss Easter and the struggles we all face during this time of isolation. This is a beautiful, vulnerable, and honest conversation with all our hosts. They share what Easter means to each of them in 2020 and how Easter can offer us a sense of hope, as God is saying “I am here, trust me.”  

Please join us.  

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Moment to Breathe - Mary Magdala’s Easter Prayer by Ron Rolheiser

I never suspected
Resurrection
and to be so painful
to leave me weeping

With Joy
to have met you, alive and smiling, outside an empty tomb

With Regret
not because I’ve lost you
but because I’ve lost you in how I had you –
in understandable, touchable, kissable, clingable flesh
not as fully Lord, but as graspably human.

I want to cling, despite your protest
cling to your body
cling to your, and my, clingable humanity
cling to what we had, our past.

But I know that … if I cling
You cannot ascend and
I will be left clinging to your former self
… unable to receive your present spirit.