As an Easter people, we keep the hope of this season central in our hearts, especially important as our world slowly emerges from the grip of COVID into a number of harsh realities full of challenges on so many levels.
By Rev. Canon Val Kenyon
With every passing year, I find myself more and more grateful for Spring.
Even though it can feel sometimes that we move right from the winds of winter into the humidity of summer, it is in spring where in creation all around us, we begin to see sadness turn to joy, death give way to life, and gloomy gray transform into all sorts of colours. If we take the time to notice, we will find that we have front row seats to the bursting of life at every turn as trees and plants bloom, grass grows, weather warms and daylight continues to lengthen.
While all of this is happening in the natural world around us, as disciples of Jesus, we find ourselves in the midst of a liturgical season, no less dramatic. It is in this season of Eastertide in which we celebrate the events of Easter Day when sorrow turned to joy, despair changed into hope, and of course death was miraculously transformed into life. The victory of Christ of Life and Love against all the forces of evil and darkness was assured once and for all. Hallelujah!
As an Easter people, we keep the hope of this season central in our hearts, especially important as our world slowly emerges from the grip of COVID into a number of harsh realities full of challenges on so many levels.
This season reminds us that through all of the trials of life, in our anxious moments and fretful concerns, God remains with us, always and forever, lifting us up and giving us strength to do the hard work as followers of Jesus. As we remain open to God’s Spirit, we ask for grace to discern each in our own contexts what it might look like to participate with God in all God wants to do in and through us in this precise moment of history.
Education for Ministry Open Houses: Wednesday, May 25 and Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm.
This pursuit is always uppermost in our minds in our Education for Ministry sessions. Should this be something that you would like to explore in more detail, we will be holding several virtual Open Houses where you can learn more about Education for Ministry, and what might await you there on Wednesday, May 25 and Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm.
If these dates, times, or format do not work for you, please reach out at any time to hear more about EfM within the Diocese of Huron. Either Libi Clifford, the Diocese of Huron EfM Coordinator or myself Val Kenyon, Huron’s EfM Animator at valeriekenyon@diohuron.org would be pleased to hear from you.
Rev. Canon Dr. Val Kenyon is EFM Animator in Huron.