Collecting My Thoughts

I wanted to collect my overall impressions of the Paschal season we are just now coming out of while the memories are still fresh. They seem to fade much more quickly these last few years. I wrote in my blog at the very beginning of Lent, just after Forgiveness Sunday, that I thought this was going to be a time of change in my spiritual life. I now believe it has been a profound one. These past 50 or so days have impacted me on such a deep level that I can’t even find the correct words to express what I want to say.

I have meet the Lord in the quiet of my heart and seen Him in the shouts of His people. “Truly He is risen!” I have looked upon Him in the prostrations of a 5 year old girl before the cross and felt Him in the kisses of total strangers. I have tasted the sustenance of His mercy in the Friendship Bread. I have felt the warmth of His light on my face from the Pascha candle and known His friendship in the hand shake of new and welcome family. I have kissed His feet, cried tears of repentance, looked deep into His eyes staring back at me from behind the glasses of a kind Father and believed His Gospel message in song and prayer.

Christ is Risen and Jesus is Lord! His Kingdom is come and I will never be the same again. Thank you all who took part and thank you my Father God for being so merciful to me a sinner. Holy is His name!

Amen