Writer. Dreamer. Artist.

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Reflections

AWOL on Easter: An Exercise in Hope

The Ghost of Easter(s) Past

This is the first Resurrection Sunday I have spent outside of a church in my entire life.

As a May baby, I was old enough to spend my first Easter in church—likely, but not inevitably, in a crowded nursery of fussy fellow infants wearing lacy socks and fancy shoes.

I like to imagine that I was soothed by the sounds of worship music in utero even before I was born. That on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1992, I heard my favorite hymns in my mother’s womb, before I could even recognize their triumphant language:

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A Prayer for Peace in Troubled Times

Lord, make us instruments of your peace: Take our broken and disfigured hearts and transform them into living ministers of justice, clarity, and dignity.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love—Not a love that enables, but a love that fiercely confronts the growth of evil in ourselves and in others with Your zeal for healing and holy truth;

Where there is injury, a weighty, supernatural pardon that honestly calculates the cost of loss, of harm, of damage done and still says, by Your power, Father, forgive them: they know not what they do;

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