Eastertide #22

Fixing our eyes on Jesus…

 (Hebrews 12:2)

Let’s see… It’s still Eastertide. We’re only half way through the season—a season of 50 days from Easter to Pentecost, wherein we are supposed to fix our eyes on Christ Crucified and Risen. Are we getting antsy to move on to other things?

I see next Sunday is Mother’s Day. You can’t mess with that. It is the second best attended service of the year. Woe to the pastor who does not fix his gaze on motherhood. I wish they would have put Mother’s Day off a few weeks to allow Eastertide to run its course until Pentecost. After Pentecost we enter into our Ordinary Days when we celebrate how the Holy Spirit, in unseen ways, empowers us to follow Jesus throughout our Ordinary Days. That would have been a perfect time for Mother’s Day. How does one do mothering without the Holy Spirit?