End of Lent 2020! EASTER SUNDAY!

Happy Easter everyone! A day spent back and forth to church for our Easter live-streams - particularly enjoyed the fact we got to “spend” Easter with quite a few of “you” who faithfully follow mine and mum’s blips!

’The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.’ (John 10:10)

A blip of my “lockdown” companions - something I wouldn’t have guessed at when I started this challenge! But has definitely been part of the full life we’ve been living for the latter part of this peculiar lent that we have all just lived through!

Gideon Heugh writes: (thanks so much Gideon for all your writing throughout lent and your poem “Devastating Beauty” that we shared in our Easter livestream this evening!)

“How to be more alive:

First, open your arms to your own humanity; give the gorgeous mess of your entirety a warm welcome, remembering that all of you is loved, free from limit or condition.

Second, drop your heart into a pool of wonder – that sacred, healing water found among the stillness, found wherever there are trees or birds or streams or hills or the opulence of an unfiltered sky. Do not let the screens hem you in; seek instead the heaven-wrought, the spirit-woven – all that brightly sings of the Abundance.

Third, let your love travel beyond all bounds, let the curtains tear before it so that nothing is left unadored – including your brokenness and the failings of the world. Every soul walks with a limp, and not one is unworthy of compassion’s embrace.

And finally, remember. Remember your divine heritage. Remember the holy sacrament poured out for you in the form of a gentle man’s blood. Remember that the cold shackles of death could not hold him, could not stop him from coming back for you.

Creator God,
Release me from my obsessions with busyness and perfectionism – or anything that takes up too much room in my life. Teach me Lord how to live well on this Earth and care for all you have made. Bring abundance of life to all, and help me to give energy and hope to those I encounter. Amen.”