Ha, well so much for the big Lenten comeback to blogging. Oh well. Still going to jot down some thoughts here.
I'm finding it a difficult challenge to remember that it's still Pascha. I mean, Pascha basically just begins on the evening of Holy Saturday, but it goes on for all of Bright Week in one sense, and for forty days in another sense! Now that the Great Fast (Lent) is over, it seems really easy to just go back to the "same old, same old", and not have my heart and mind oriented toward the spiritual. Not that I did a great job of it during Lent, but now with no food restrictions, it's tempting to just think I have license to focus on me, me, me again. Yuck. but the Good News of Pascha is that
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!
I'm not sure if I have any particular tactics for keeping my heart and mind focused on this hope, but if anything comes to mind, I'll be sure to write it down here. I know one thing I've been really wanting to do is get the recordings of the services off my recorder and posted online for everyone to access. In the meantime, I'll put up this awesome video of some kids singing "The Angel Cried". =)
