Carry Water
Lections: The Third Sunday of Easter , AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The Resurrection doesn’t solve everything. I wish that it did. And from an eternal perspective, certainly it does. But for us down here in space and time, immersed in the mud and the blood, we still have to get up in the mornings, walk the dog, pay our bills, grow old and sick and die. It’s a bit disorienting, to shift from the miraculous to the mundane. “Christ is risen! Now back to work.” Buddhists have a good proverb for it: “Before enlightenment,” they say, “chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” I like that. That’s what the weeks after Holy Week feel like to me. What does the Resurrection change? How does it affect our lives in the everyday? Does it raise us from the dead? Or ...
