AMEN....

It is Easter/Passover Week. Holy Week.
This one is so different than any of the other 61 that I have experienced over my lifetime.
What is familiar anymore, anyway?

I am planning to watch You Tube tomorrow at noon. Live Andrea Bocelli from the Duomo in Milan.
I was there 2 years ago. What an amazing place, full of miracles and wonder. I am so grateful that I was fortunate enough, blessed, to experience such a place, especially before this terrible virus laid siege to our world.  Just as we developed a Post-911 era, a changed reality will no doubt come as we arise from this current global tragedy.

Never the same.... Better in many ways, we can hope. More grateful. More aware of how we rushed around like little ants before it, to work, to gyms and appointments, spas and restaurants, stores and lunches, and meetings.  We always were "rushing" to get somewhere we were not, calling ahead to inform somebody somewhere that we were "on our way"..... Now we are just here.... You can't run. You cannot hide anymore between places, or in a crowd. It is time to face ourselves. Face the family. Face the truth. Face God. Where are we really? Where have we been? Did we get anywhere and are we better off? There is an old saying, "Everywhere I go, there I am!" My prayer is that this pandemic gives us the much needed time to reflect on these things. Holy Week gives us that special opportunity on a religious level to reflect on our souls.... to judge ourselves and to be judged, to ask forgiveness where we have fallen short. To ask that from our Heavenly Father, but also to get right and ask the same of ourselves, our family and those we love. Maybe it is we who need a rebirth....

Andrea will sing and many across the globe will listen. It will be epic. Of that I am certain. What a time to be alive, to be able to witness such an event. Bocelli says in a statement, "On the day in which we celebrate the trust in a life that triumphs, I'm honored and happy to answer, "Si!"..... I believe in the strength of praying together: I believe in the Christian Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that everyone- whether they are believers or not - truly needs right now.  Thanks to music, streamed live, bringing together millions of clasped hands everywhere in the world, we will hug this wounded Earth's pulsing heart, this wonderful international forge that is reason for Italian pride...it will be a joy to witness it, in the Duomo, during the Easter celebration which evokes the mystery of birth and rebirth."

Well, I will be listening, and sharing what I hope will be a global healing of sorts. We so need healing.... all of us, everywhere.  There must be blessings in these times, or God would not allow them. We must look for them, search earnestly for them. Search the darkness in our souls and say "Si" to the Light that seeks to heal our broken hearts and lost world.

And all of God's people shall say, Amen.....