Apr 15 2010
When Easter Is Over
It’s mid-April, and the Easter season has once again passed. I love Easter. I wish that as a church (the Protestant arm of it, anyway) we would make a bigger deal out of this season. I mean, Christmas takes over our lives for about a month, in our faces and our mouths and our hearts all season long. Easter always seems to come and then go almost before we’ve had time to think about it, just a blip in the calendar. And yet it marks something so incredibly significant.
Our Soli team performed “Glorious Day” for the last time on April 11, so the Easter season has JUST ended for me. But all that time backstage, praying that the Risen Lord would really manifest His presence and change lives during our performances, has challenged me anew to remember the resurrection and live as though it’s true each and every day. One of my “Glorious Day” lines says of the first Easter morning that “on the glorious morning of a glorious day, everything will change.”
Everything will change. Everything did change. What difference is that making in my life, or your life, today? What difference is it making in our relationships, in our writing, in our work, in our play, in our priorities?
I leave you with that thought today :).
P.S. You may notice a change in the blog schedule around here — I’m now posting Tuesdays and Thursdays (except during blog tours). Sometimes I will miss it, because, like last week, I travel or get sick or lose my Internet connection. But for the most part I should be pretty consistent!
You posted some intriguing thoughts here, and I’d never noticed the different attention spans for those two holidays. But I think whether or not we accept the message of Easter is a desicion made in our hearts and lived out in our lives all year round. You know what I mean?
I had wondered why it was so silent here; I’ll miss your everyday posts, but I’ll know when to look for them now!
Thanks for your comment, Elisabeth–and yup, I agree. Really, both Christmas and Easter are only truly significant if we live out their truths throughout the year.
The biggest reason it’s been so silent is that I was sick and on vacation, and between the two I just couldn’t get up enough energy to post! But yeah, I’m cutting back to twice a week.
Recently I’ve really started noticing that! Why does Christmas go from Oct. 31 to Jan. 1, and Easter is pretty much one weekend in spring? Especially since, of the two, Easter is really the one we need to get people thinking about! Thanks for posting a good reminder! :)
“Everything will change. Everything did change. What difference is that making in my life, or your life, today? What difference is it making in our relationships, in our writing, in our work, in our play, in our priorities?”
That thought, I LIKE.
Thank you for sharing!
So sorry to hear you were sick, Rachel! Hope you’re feeling better now. :-)
Thanks :). I am, much.