Easter Every Day!

Easter Lilies

 Easter Once More!

June 30, 2013

Easter lilies fill the Church on Easter morning,

Announce the word the world cannot accept,

That death overcome gives more than life,

But life in Christ the risen Son.  The day ends

All too soon and we go our separate ways,

Yet within my garden the seeds of life grow,

and bloom blessed words from robed angels

of light, need know persuasion to say again,

Jesus Christ risen from the dead

It's a great family tradition that has bloomed for many years.  We bring home the Easter Lily plants and plant them in the side yard.  Every year they come back to us and bloom once the Sunday of Easter is long gone.  How wonderful that plants do not have to be convinced of their lives and their purpose to just show up each year with their message!  I suppose it would be a good prayer to ask that the Easter message would be as fundamental to us as breathing.  And yet, Easter was never a done deal--it is supremely a matter of faith, that once caught, blooms in us.