Monday, April 2, 2018

Dear God,

Yesterday on Easter Sunday joy filled the air at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church.  As happy faces entered the building, there truly was the sense of your living presence.

Living the Lenten experience leading to Holy Week and Easter was most meaningful to me this year.  Retreating at the Benedictine Monastery on Holy Thursday particularly spoke to our covenant group and to me.  I felt as if I lived inside Lent instead of just reading devotional readings during the Lenten season.  What joy filled my soul as you invited me to walk with you during these last few weeks.

What would Easter be without Lent?  What would Easter be without Holy Week?  What would Easter be without faith?  What would Easter be without God?

Bless you,
Holy Father,
for the gifts
of Lent,
Holy Week
and Easter.
Thank you
for faith
that allowed
it all
to happen.
Thank you
for agape love
behind all
these wonderful happenings.

Love always, Andrea