Easter People

 I love that our church (like many churches) values the rhythms of the liturgical calendar, so that each year, mere weeks after the anticipation of Advent and the celebration of Christmas, we walk very intentionally through the season of Lent and then come out of that desert into the joy of Easter.  On the day(s) after Easter, though, I sometimes find myself feeling a little bit like you feel on the day after Christmas, despite the fact that we are Easter people who get to live every day in the truth of the resurrection!  But there it is. 

So anyways, a dear friend reminded me the other day that Wendell Berry suggested we should "practice resurrection" every day (this suggestion actually comes at the end of a long line of other helpful suggestions from ol' Wendell, so look it up and read the whole thing when you get a chance sometime).  So true, Wendell, and such an apt reminder.  Practicing resurrection is a good thing to do in the wake of Easter, don't you think?   

Speaking of being Easter people, we Berrys tried to take our job very seriously this year:

More Easter pictures to come soon!