"You are witnesses of these things."
Luke 24.48
Dear Friends,
Last evening, a number of folks from St. Mary’s gathered via Zoom for a conversation with the Reverend Dr. Christian Brady. Brady is the author of Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Christian Struggle with Suffering, Grief, and Hope, the book I invited us to read together during the season of Lent. If you’ve not yet picked up a copy, I highly encourage you to do so; this is a book well worth reading.
Near the conclusion of our time together, I asked Dr. Brady to reflect on hope, the subject of the book’s final chapter. Specifically, I asked what hope means to him at the beginning of this Easter season. One phrase echoed loudly above all the rest…
“There is so much more to come…”
The hope of our faith, as resurrection people, is that there is so much ahead of us, so much open before us. The good news of Easter is that new life, divine life, eternal life is open and available to all. There is, indeed, so much more to come.
May our resurrection joy be in no way diminished as we move beyond our celebration of Easter Day – this is a fifty-day season gladness and exultation. There is so much more to come.
In our family, there is more to come as well. We anticipate welcoming a baby boy within the next week, new life in our home. As I take a few weeks away to be with my family, know that you are in my prayers, as I bid you to remember us in your prayers.
Happy Easter!
