Reflections on Stations 1 and 2

In last week's e-news, we invited people to pray the Stations of the Resurrection - a relatively new practice in the Church that helps us walk through Eastertide similarly to how we mark Lent or Good Friday with the Stations of the Cross. Thank you to Maddy and Wilna for sharing their reflections from Station 1 and 2 with us; anyone wishing to share their thoughts, musings, or art from this week's stations are encouraged to send them to Peggy.

From Maddy:

Maddy's reflections are part prayer and part poem and wholly lovely. You will find her creative work at the link below this story.

From Wilna:

Station One: The word ‘earthquake’ caught my attention: I have (in the wee dark hours of night) often thought about and fear greatly that we are overdue for a huge earthquake. No-one living in Vancouver can ignore the fact that we life in a dangerous place. Thus, reading about or hearing the word ‘earthquake’ provokes fear and anxiety.

However, two thoughts or images arise: like a crocus or snowdrop, pushing through the frozen crust of the earliest days of Spring, new life is born. Out of fear and destruction, light, in the form of an angel, appears. The stone did not fall on the guards - it opened the tomb.

We are often entombed by fear and anxiety (especially these days) but God is able to roll away the stone, to shake us up and rattle our world, bringing resurrected life in all its abundance.

Station Two: Did Mary Magdalene go into the tomb when she saw the stone was rolled away? It appears not: she turned away and ran to the disciples to tell them Jesus’ body had been taken from the tomb.

Sometimes when we enter into the locked places in our hearts, we discover riches beyond imagining. It takes courage and the hope of resurrection - that life and light are possible even in the darkest corners of our hearts.

The photo seen here, taken by Wilna, is of the small chapel at the Xenia retreat centre on Bowen Island)