Adventure 910: Tucson Winter Two/18

Richard Rohr wrote, "Easter is the feast of hope. This is the feast that says God will have the last word and that God's final judgment is resurrection. God will turn all that we (humans) maim and destroy and hurt and punish into life and beauty." 

I pray that he's right because in light of so much tragedy, sadness, unfair death, nonstop war, unjust imprisonment, broken relationships, oppression, and suffering, it takes a strong Christian faith to hold the line.

Rohr believes "... the resurrection of Christ is saying that the final judgment has already happened. It's nothing we need to fear; nothing we need to avoid. God's final judgment is that God will have the last word."

That is my personal anchor. And why I think I'm the luckiest guy on the planet. I wake up each day marveling. I take Mary Oliver's advice, "Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

I'm here to tell you, Life is good, especially today.

Who can't marvel at a very blue sky?

Who can't feel the splash of yellow on a spindly spine?

Who can't breath in the puffs of color in a cactus patch?

Who can't smell the goodness in a fry bread taco?

Who can't welcome's the touch of a prickly red cotton ball? 

Who can't revel in a swath of golden poppies?

Who can't endure the deflated sadness of a honorable loss?

Beauty blooms everywhere.

Take time to enjoy the swirl.

As Mary Oliver says, "To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and when the time comes to let it go, let it go."