If this isn’t pure, over-the-top joy and delight, I don’t know what is! I was not in town to rally the troops to put sidewalk chalk hearts up and down our sidewalk on the night before Easter as we have done since 2020, but some of the neighborhood kids took matters into their own hands—and surprised me and the neighborhood once again with a whole trail of hearts for Easter! Cue the Snoopy dance!!
Blessed are you who didn’t rise,
still here while the world moves on—
in the long Saturday where nothing has happened yet.
Blessed are you in the ache,
no lilies, no trumpet—
just breath, just staying,
just one more day.
Blessed are you who wonder if you missed it,
if new life passed you by—
but even now, something quiet is loosening the stone.
Stay with what is not finished.
Love is nearer than it feels.
The story has not ended— it is only just beginning to open.
-Kate Bowler
