There’s no way we can go back to anything resembling “normal” post-quarantine (assuming there will be only one, with a novel virus that we know desperately little about) — this apocalypse is simply drawing back the curtains and showing us how unsustainable this all is.
I think, on some level, more and more of us are realizing that. It won’t magically be normal on May 1. Or August 1. Or beyond. This is going to change things.
And that's the thing about change: it’s not necessarily our species’ strong suit. It’s scary. It’s unknown. It’s stressful. It’s chaotic.
And if anyone says they know what will take place, they are a charlatan of the highest order.
And if anyone says they know what will take place, they are a charlatan of the highest order.
And so we keep going.
This is the night, yes. It’s also, as my friend @pastortimbrown is saying, the Fifth Sunday of the Pandemic. This is something wholly new.
We know things will be different, but we don’t know what that will look like.
This is the night, yes. It’s also, as my friend @pastortimbrown is saying, the Fifth Sunday of the Pandemic. This is something wholly new.
We know things will be different, but we don’t know what that will look like.
@pastortimbrown Tonight is the Vigil of Easter, the high holy moment in the Christian liturgical calendar.
Vigils, keeping watch at night, prepare us to accept that tomorrow will be wholly new. That tomorrow will be different, even though we don’t know what that will look like.
Vigils, keeping watch at night, prepare us to accept that tomorrow will be wholly new. That tomorrow will be different, even though we don’t know what that will look like.
It’s unknown, but it promises to be different.
And so. In some ways, I think it's up to *us* to live out that difference — to be the body of Christ in the world, to proclaim release to the captive and cry out against massive systemic injustice.
And so. In some ways, I think it's up to *us* to live out that difference — to be the body of Christ in the world, to proclaim release to the captive and cry out against massive systemic injustice.
This is the night unlike any other night…and even more so in this unprecedented time.
All of us who follow Jesus participate in his death and resurrection. It’s weird and a bit mystical, but none of us go through this great vigil unchanged.
All of us who follow Jesus participate in his death and resurrection. It’s weird and a bit mystical, but none of us go through this great vigil unchanged.
To all of you participating in this vigil separated from others, remember that even through times like this…you do not walk alone.
We're in this together. Love will win. Justice will prevail. It’s corny af but I believe it to be true.
We're in this together. Love will win. Justice will prevail. It’s corny af but I believe it to be true.
It doesn’t make any logical sense at all, and yet I know it to be true. In my bones.
Rest up, beloved. Tomorrow is a new day, and we will rejoice in it.
#EasterVigil
Rest up, beloved. Tomorrow is a new day, and we will rejoice in it.
#EasterVigil
