...a word from Kathy

I n my memories, I see happy Christmas mornings, I see wrapping paper everywhere!  I hear squealing and laughter.  Additionally, I see our children wearing Easter clothes and running to and fro hunting Easter eggs, eating candy, joyful! I also see children carrying the flowering cross as they walk down the center aisle of our Texas church on Easter morning, I hear the Alleluia being proclaimed, I see smiles and joy!   And then a few days later,  I hear my child ask, "Mama, now what?  Christmas and Easter are over and now all we have is regular life for a while".  Indeed, now what? Peter, James, John, Mary, and many others asked the same question.  They had a thrilling few years but it didn't end as expected.  So, they hid, wept, asked for proof of life, denied, betrayed, and were devastated, and wondering, now what? As do I, too often.  And maybe, as do you.  Maybe our minds ask: But why?  For what purpose?  How could you? ...