Reflections
For years I was the Easter Bunny of our family, arising before the sun dared to show its face on Easter Sunday and hiding 2-3 dozen brightly colored eggs (cooked and dyed the day before) across our front yard for two little boys to gather up in their already chocolate-stuffed Easter baskets. It was an important ritual for our young family, even though the hurried nature of the morning, required by my need to get to an early morning Eucharist at St. Peter’s was less than ideal.
But I have always had an uneasy relationship with Easter eggs as an Easter symbol. Eggs are a source of new life, I was taught and wonderfully appropriate as a sign the new life we celebrate on Easter. But these eggs were infertile-at least most were- and they were hard boiled for human consumption, not new life. And don’t get me started about plastic eggs…!
But for years we would cook and dye the eggs on Saturday morning, put them in the baskets on Saturday night ( return them to the refrigerator after the boys had gone to bed), then the Easter Bunny would do his thing in the dark, and the search would commence at sunrise. It was a great time, but I always had that nagging doubt about eggs.
Until this week.
I was reading a post by a priest from one the of the churches that I am working with in South Carolina- St. John’s, John’s Island- and she had set up the congregation’s Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday in the parish cemetery that dates to pre-Revolutionary War times. She talked in an extensive post about the egg as a symbol of the stone that had been rolled away from the tomb of Jesus. She talked about the appropriateness of eggs being found in a cemetery and the life that is ours in Jesus when the morning dawn is allowed to enter the stone cold tombs of our preciously guarded souls.
Eggs as stones at the tomb-I like that! Now I just need to make my peace with the plastic.
Other Matters of Interest
Special Offering this Sunday for Spring Hill M.B. Church
The Mission Committee has designated the undesignated, non-pledged offerings on the first Sunday of each month to be given to the Vicar’s Discretionary Fund.
This month the Vicar will be using the offering to support the rebuilding of the Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church, our neighbor just to the east. This offering will be to supplement the donation from our Mission Committee and the grant from the Trustees from the Diocese of Mississippi. Be generous!
Jail Ministry—Next Steps Meeting: April 11 @5:00pm
Anyone interested in helping us plan our next steps in establishing a Nativity Jail Ministry is invited to a meeting at the Salt and Light building this Thursday at 5:00pm.
Nativity Dinners- A New Format
Our plans to join together as a church family for a meal has undergone some revision. We are now looking for a time after church when we can get together on a regular basis. The church will provide an a main dish and drinks while members of the congregation will bring a side dish, salad or dessert. Our first Sunday dinner will be Pentecost Sunday, May 19. Mark your calendars now!
See you Sunday!
Blessings and Peace,
Duncan
(601)2601937
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