Easter Letter from Dr. Rev. Carol Kerr

Dear friends and members of the Blue Point Church,

 

Mud season is in full swing at our old farmhouse, particularly our long dirt driveway. Last summer Dave thought we needed better drainage across the driveway. So, he took his handy-dandy new and impressive backhoe and dug a very large swale to cut across it. It worked well enough last summer. It was frozen over all winter. But now that it is mud season it has taken on a life of its own. It is an expanding extravaganza of a muddy ditch. Every time we drive over it our tires dig down deeper while mounding up the middle.

As I am writing this letter, Gavin (my senior in High School) decided to avoid the ditch, since his car bottoms out every time he passes over it. So, he drove onto the grass lawn around the driveway. Also, there is a stone wall and some trees he had to avoid. So Gavin just drove pretty far out into the lawn before he got completely stuck in the mud there too. Finally, our neighbor, John, (also in High School) saw Gavin stranded half way across our yard. John hooked Gavin’s car up to his pickup truck, drove the truck in other direction, splattering and skidding, and pulled Gavin out. Now we have about 10 deep and muddy car and truck tracks all across our lawn. Along with a gargantuan swale that we might be able to fish in before long.

With mud season, spring in Maine makes the most dubious entrance. Maybe the ancients were right. They believed that the coming of spring couldn’t happen all on its own. Rather they believed that we cheer it on with our celebrations – the telling and retelling the stories of Easter, the death and resurrection of Christ. Our science tells us that the tilt of the Earth will bring warm winds and dry up the mud for the flowers to bloom. Then Dave will use his backhoe to fill in all the ruts. But, it is these stories that bring the springtime of the spirit. Easter tells us that hope still lives. Easter tells us that the springtime of love, justice and peace can and will happen.

 

Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, April 5 at 9:30.  At the beginning of the service The kids hand out the palms and we celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The second half of the service we remember the last week of the life of Jesus leading to his resurrection.

The Last Supper and Service of Shadows, Thursday – April 9 at 7:30pm.  We read the events of holy week and end in darkness.

Easter!  April 12 at 9:30.  Flowers, great organ, lots of joy.  Invite a friend who doesn’t have a church. Christ has risen!

 

We would love to have you join us!

 

Pastor Carol