I pray that you are well and that the glow of Easter is still warming your heart in these early days of the season. We had a magnificent Holy Week and Easter at St. David's. I want to thank the many people who served our community to make it so meaningful and beautiful and touching. We are so very blessed as a community that so many are willing to share their gifts and their time to make St. David's all that it is.

Easter is not over. Easter has just begun for many of us. Yes, the day of celebration of the resurrection is past us, but we have fifty days of our Church calendar to experience the risen Christ with His first followers and we have our own lives as well. Of the many marvels of Easter - the dying on the cross for our sins; Jesus' resurrection as a promise that we, too, will live beyond the door of death; the moments with the resurrected Christ that bring new life for His first followers; no moment is more incredible than this one. The risen Christ is alive and with us, with you and me today, offering the love and presence of God, empowering us for a life that's really life.

Too many of us look on Easter as a story only. Too many of us look on it as something that happened a long time ago and has very little meaning for our lives on a daily basis. The Easter story is encouraging to hear when we come and worship with many happy people. It's helpful to remember the story when we are walking through the valley of the shadow of death. Easter. Easter seems to parallel a general sense we feel in spring time that life will somehow find a way as it does after a long winter.

Easter means so much more. Easter means that nothing will separate us from the love and presence of God in our lives and that Christ is out here in our worlds, offering His saving grace and presence today and every day if we will open the door of our hearts and our lives to let Him in. I've often thought of this as God at His best - creator of all that is, expanding the universe into nothingness, redeeming the world by the cross and grave, interested in your life and in mine.

This Easter season, I invite you to say a little prayer to welcome the risen Christ in your life. Make some room. Open your heart. That's all we need do. He will do the rest as He gently comes into your life to take you on a journey that leads to life and more of it.

He is risen! He is here!