Post Easter Ruminations

We had such a marvelous time Sunday, with grandkids and kids of kids who have grown up around our annual Easter festivities, now for over 30 years.

When it's over, coming down always sends me into deep contemplation. Perhaps moreso now with the Artemis II mission underway, and the wonder it brings to mind.

It's still hard to grasp that we all float on one tiny blue dot called, Earth! What does that have to do with Easter, you ask? Stay with me.

Except for some few Galileo-types among us, who see beyond the day to day, we would still be totally oblivious to these billions of galaxies that surround us; let alone realize our codependency upon our now well-abused ecosystem, one sustained only by a delicate balance of atmospheric gasses held close around us by the unfelt but powerful attraction of our relatively tiny planet's mass.

Now more aware of this delicate wonder than the thousand of generations before us, we still go about life from holiday to holiday, season to season, war to war, as if we are in control.

Rather than risking the massive work of peaceful global collaboration, we micromanage ourselves sufficient only for economic subsystems, placing our hopes in escape, whether that be through scientific invention, various and competitive religious persuasions or push come to shove, military violence.

Neither seems fully sufficient for addressing a knawing awareness that we are missing something better, something that only love and personal sacrifce could deliver.

Yet as the seed of Abraham, the closest we have gotten is a religious reduction, with three monotheistic warring belief systems existing. Even the one bearing the name of Christ is now leading the violence!

Each of them offer brief hints at the possibilities of such collaboration and peace by way of celebration such as Passover, Easter or Ramadan.

But when those season pass, we quickly recover our ego sufficent to return to our own devices, rather than trust that small moment of peace we each stopped to enjoy.

Meanwhile the heavens await our response to the One who was Love, the ever expanding though seemingly vacant galaxies perhaps representative of what such love initially birthed!

Maybe it's time!