Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. – The Book of Common Prayer

Easter is a season of 50 days, not one. It is a season. A season longer than Lent. Longer than Advent. Longer than Christmastide. Longer than Epiphany (most of the time).

Every one of these fifty days is an invitation to focus attention on resurrection. What has emerged from the sacred, silent, and dark places?

Look back and ahead.

What has been healing and what has been healed? What healing has brought new understanding, new insights, new ways of being:
for you?
for your family?
for the community?
for this world?

How are these new ways of being empowered, shaped, strengthened, and settled by the characteristics of God’s command of love: humility, vulnerability, acceptance, trust, and wonder? These characteristics that Jesus embodied, and through God made Jesus newly alive. How are you newly alive? How are we?

Blessed Eastertide.