The reign of life has begun, the tyranny of death is ended … This is the day the Lord has made — a day far different from those made when the world was first created, and which are measured by the passage of time. This is the beginning of a new creation. On this day, as the prophet says, God makes a new heaven and a new earth.

St. Gregory of Nyssa

I’m sorry I haven’t been saying much recently. As Mimi says, the work leading up to Pascha has been taking up a lot of spare time.

And it’s been taking up the kind of reflective time that leads me to want to muse “out loud” in this space. Most of my ability to turn things over and look at them has been put trying to wrap my mind around a fraction of what’s been said in the services during Holy Week. It’s enough to keep you busy for the rest of your life, really. This is the entire Gospel in the palm of your hand. This is all the hopes and dreams of humanity re-enacted in a single night — the narrative that revolutionized our history that can be told in small words that anyone can understand.

But it’s like the robin’s eggshell that I found yesterday on my walk, with its little inhabitant off somewhere doing better things — simple, delicate, beautiful, but also profound, mysterious and wonderful.

Christ is Risen!