How will you bring in May this year? I have happy memories of rolling up construction paper cones and attaching string handles with way too much tape. Then on the first of May we’d fill them with early spring flowers, and oh-so-sneakily hang them on our neighbors’ door knobs, ring their doorbells and run away. It’s one of many ancient customs to celebrate the tipping of the planet and the return of abundance. This year at CUCC we’re in the season of Eastertide through most of May, celebrating and considering what Jesus’s resurrection means for how we moderns (and post-moderns) live. How do we Easter? 

When we affirm life and deny the power of death, we are Eastering. Megan McKenna, a profound Catholic theologian and storyteller, writes that, when we bring hope to trouble, when we listen to others with curiosity and affirm them and their lives, we are Eastering. We bring life out of death when we forgive others and offer them dignity and the possibility of a new relationship with us and others in the community. We reject the forces of hate and death every time we speak the truth in public, every time we confront injustice and every time we let joy blossom, even in a paper Mayday basket, in our life together.

~ In Peace, Becky