April 10, 2026

My heart is still bursting from a full and beautiful Holy Week and a very full (!) and joyful Easter Morning. I can hardly believe we did all we did - but we sure did! Thank you to everyone who made it so, in oh-so-many ways:

Thank you altar guild, bread bakers, choir and musicians; thank you palm-wavers and capitol marchers; thank you set-up and take-down help throughout the week; thank you readers and Vigil skit performers; thank you to those who brought food for Maundy Thursday and Easter Vigil, and those who set up and cleaned up on those occasions; thank you to those who stuffed Easter eggs, those who hid Easter eggs, and those who brought your kids and grandkids to find Easter eggs; thank you to those who donated flowers; thank you to everyone who checked in on me with ongoing offers of help - thank you to everyone who came to enter the story with your whole hearts. 

We had just over 400 people, total, come to services between Palm Sunday and Easter Morning. All week I felt Spirit alive and moving among us. My prayer this week is that in whatever ways you were able to participate in this sacred time, you felt it too. During the week we were called into shared belonging through our holy story, and now we are sent onward with renewed hope, deeper connections, and stronger resolve. As life settles back into its regular rhythms, may you continue to find your place in our great story. May it continue to draw you deeper into the Way of Love - love for God, for yourself, for our neighbors, and for all we can be together.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!