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Friends,

WHAT. AN. EASTER! Maybe you felt it too- the joy was not just palpable, it was deeply infectious!  So now what do we do?

The Sunday after Easter always feels a bit like the house when guests leave — wonderfully full a moment ago, now hushed enough to hear your own heartbeat.

John tells us the disciples felt something similar the week after that first Easter (John 20:19-31).  They huddled behind locked doors, wondering, Now what?  Then Jesus slipped into the stillness, breathed peace over their anxious hearts, and sent them back out with hands open and hope alive.

That’s our question too, isn’t it?  With the rector away on a well-earned rest and the fanfare packed up for another year, now what do we do with Easter?  We do what Thomas finally did: reach toward the wounded-yet-risen Christ who is already reaching toward us.  We let his peace settle into our ordinary routines — in the checkout line, on the seawall, around a kitchen table.  We breathe that peace into the lives we touch.

So this week, while I catch my breath on Vacation, the invitation is simple: practice a small act of resurrection.  Write the note you’ve been delaying, share the meal you’ve been saving, forgive the slight you’ve been nursing.  Then come Sunday and tell us where you met the living Christ along the way.

Easter isn’t over; it’s only just begun.

Alex+