How to Get Out of Bed Every Morning & Keep Beginning Again: Eastertide

Rise to get light in your eyes first thing, that’s what all the experts say.  And I guess that makes sense – that the pupil always comes first, if you’re really going to be a student of living the kind of life of real worth, light to the eyes, like, as C.S. Lewis says,  the seeing, the looking always comes first.  Rise and face the sun, rise and look for the light, rise like a flame, rise like a phoenix that everyone thought was only papery ash in the wind.  Rise through the resistance that whispers that today won’t be any different than yesterday, rise through all that feels impossible and heavy, rise though everyone would tell you to take a seat, rise because that is what seeds and the brave always do, rise because you were made to grow too. The reality of the resurrection is more than some dogma on a page, it is now power in your veins.   Rise when everything in you would tell you that it’s too late, and even when it seems too late, because it’s never too late – doesn’t even the moon rise?  And won’t you be doing exactly this at the […]