While I won’t pretend to understand all that is going on in this pandemic, how it is influencing our lives, and may do so for years to come , it occurs to me that one thing it is doing is driving us to the center, to the core, driving us to what matters. So I was thinking today that this year we are going to have Easter without all the hoopla. No fashion show in a church packed on Easter Sunday, no plastic grass in colors grass never grows in to line an Easter basket for the Easter egg hunt that is not going to occur, and (damn it!) no Reese’s peanut butter cups shaped like eggs. No, we are left with just Easter and the Easter story – but what a story! Jesus as man. Miracles. Jesus at the Last Supper. Jesus betrayed and condemned. Jesus on the cross. Jesus in the tomb. Jesus alive again and walking down the road to Emmaus. Jesus in our hearts.
And what comes to mind here for me is Raymond Carver’s Late Fragment:
“And did you get what you wanted from this life even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on earth.”
Easter without all the hoopla…”to feel myself beloved on earth.”
It occurs to me... 