Easter Sunday
Good morning everyone. I hope everyone is up and awake - it's a lovely day! I realise it is currently only 8:35am but I've been up since 5am! We (meaning Paul and the Czechs) ventured down in the church minibus to the dawn service which was in a very... secluded area (read: backend of nowhere). But I got us there and back!
Paul did kill a pheasant on the way there - it was probably the one my granny has been feeding! Thankfully on the way home he missed a lamb that was out on the road - although it was on the other side of the road so you'd like to think he'd miss it anyway....
It was a nice, if very cold, service out in a garden overlooking the beautiful Strangford Lough. I don't think I'd really fancy getting up at 5am every Sunday! And there was breakfast served afterwards in a church hall - all very good!
So I hope you all have a good Easter Sunday wherever you are reading this from and here's a quotation from Thomas Merton to finish it off:
The challenge of the resurrection for the world – especially to Christians – is to travel beyond the domain of historical truth and to live its truth experimentally. To live each day as “fully alive” as we possibly can be. To trust in hope over despair, to commit ourselves to newness and openness, to joy and to discovery. To engage with faith that looks for signs of the risen Lord everywhere: in the pursuit of justice, mercy, compassion and wherever love and new life is found. To live the resurrection is to live in the knowledge that hope, joy, peace and healing will win through in the end.
Easter blessings to you & yours today.
Now to pour myself a cup of coffee and attempt an essay before church... And as for my plans for this afternoon... These might have something to do with it:
posted by Rach @ 8:24 AM
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In my defense it was a crazy psycho pheasant! Running headlong and beak-first into the path of the oncoming happy bus is not advisable my little feathered friends.
Bowman, it was crossing the road. Had your eyes been on the road you might have seen it! And as for this "let's see if we can make the minibus fly going over hills" game...
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