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Rev. Catherine Stark-Corn
Minister to Children and Families
Living Easter Every Day
Last week my son padded down the hall to the family room where I was sitting doing some computer work. Having just awakened, he pressed up against me with his warm and sleepy body. Within seconds he popped up and raced towards the window shouting, “The trees!” I leaned forward to peer out the second floor window not sure of what I would see, when he said, “The trees have life on them!” referring to the noticeable buds on the trees awakening to spring.
It has been an unusually long winter and we all seem to be savoring the moments when we notice winter giving way to spring—when we can say the plants, the yard, the bushes have life on them. Even in these weeks of back and forth temperatures we know spring will come—I am sure it always has. The earth will spring to life reassuring us; all that looked dead for months will live again.
In our part of the world, spring and Easter arrive around the same time—and both carry the promise of new life. Easter may seem to be wrapped into one day or even one season—but the truth is it needs to live within us year round. We must avoid limiting our wrestling with the mystery of Easter to one day, for it is far more than alleluias and trumpet sounds that quiet after morning worship. When we stand in the mystery of the resurrection — we meet Christ, the breath of peace; we meet Christ, the bread of life; we meet Christ, the promise of new life.
In a world filled with conflict and suffering we must seek to live embraced by the resurrected Christ, bringing God’s grace filled love into each encounter with others.
As the days become filled with warmth and sunshine may our senses be filled with the sights and sounds of spring, our souls quenched with the promise of new life.
-Catherine Stark-Corn
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