Edina Morningside Community Church

Today’s scripture reading: Luke 24:1-12

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For all the plentiful symbols, sights and sounds of this twenty-first century Easter, none of what we see today was present on that first Easter morning. There were no brass or stringed instruments to undergird resurrection songs. No perfect clusters of lilies, or bold “alleluias”, or choir anthems, or squeaky-clean children. No Hallmark cards, ham dinners, egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, or marshmallow Peeps. There was nothing that set this day off as special from any other “first day of the week, at early dawn”.

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Edina Morningside Community Church

Today’s scripture reading: Luke 18:31-19:10

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Once a month, a Catholic laywoman named Deb invites me into her Edina home to unburden my soul. She is my spiritual director, and I’ve been seeing her for almost eight years. Each month I show up as a tangle of inner conflicts and she holds space for me to share what’s on my heart, then mirrors back to me the boundless grace of God’s love. She is a chiropractor for my soul, releasing tensions and aligning my spirit so that I can be an open vessel of love for God and others. Her sunlit living room is like church to me, even though there are no hymns and “passing the peace” goes very quickly.

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