Living in Post-Easter Mode

by Libbie Patterson

Easter has come and gone, and we who celebrated Christ’s resurrection move back into the predictable rhythms of daily life. We’ve finished with our Lenten practices, we’ve marked the events of Holy week—waving palms, washing feet, partaking in Last Suppers, attending the beautiful services that mark the final hours of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. The holiest time in the Christian calendar has come and gone for another year.

Paul Harvey, whose radio broadcasts made him a household name for many years, had a sequence titled “The Rest of the Story.” Each story came with a punchline of some kind, providing either a startling or comforting encore to some real-life tale. It was his way of letting us know that endings are not always as they seem.

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