living into Easter one morning at a time

Caroline Vogel — April 14, 2020

My intention is to walk through these days of Eastertide (the 50 days that follow the Celebration of Easter Day) one morning at a time, showing up and practicing my faith imperfectly by grace. Good days, bad days, mundane boring days, all the days… just showing up and seeing what happens when I intentionally attempt to live my faith in an embodied way during this difficult time AND honoring the Easter season of life overcoming death. How does the container of our faith carry us through the tough parts of life- like moving through a pandemic?

I’ve posted a 15 minute meditation to use the 50 mornings of Eastertide. May each morning of this holy season remind us especially amidst these dark and uncharted times of a pandemic that each day holds the promise of a new beginning. With God’s help can we open our hearts to that possibility each day? Let’s find out… one morning at a time.

Blessings on all your mornings and the hours that follow each of these holy days of Eastertide. Caroline

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My friend Brenda Rasch is offering meditation once a week (no charge) & Feldenkrais Classes as well. You can learn more below.

Meditation:  On Wednesday mornings (until May 13th) at 8:30am Brenda leads an Embodied Life meditation. She does a short guided meditation and then sit together for 20 minutes. All are welcome. There is no charge.

Feldenkrais: Brenda has added 2 Feldenkrais Movement class series for April-Monday mornings and Thursday mornings, both at 9:30am. The classes will be small, currently limited to 10 students. This will allow for the personal interaction that makes a class much different than working with a recording. If you can't make a class the audio and video recordings will be available.  You can sign up for individual classes or for the whole series. More info and pricing is here:  http://www.brendaraschpt.com/register/

If you didn’t get a chance to listen to my friend and colleague The Rev. Sara-Scott’s Holy Week meditation, I encourage you do to so. It continues to offer me a way to access The Light amidst the darkness. Getting clear on our faith maybe especially our Easter Faith is an incredibly empowering act. Getting clear in our soul can have an impact on our daily lives in such a life-giving, Spirit-filled way.

“An Easter faith is not one that sees the world through rose colored glasses and blithely treats adversity as if it is not real. An Easter faith is more audacious that that. An Easter faith is able to behold the deep challenges of life, to walk through suffering and name it as such, to even rage at the heavens for the way things are, and to sit in the dark and wait for the light to come. People who can do this can live boldly.” - The Rev. Sara-Scott Wingo

Amen. Amen. Amen!

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