Easter Thoughts - Day 55

While Easter this year was bursting with traditions - baskets, egg hunts and ham dinner.  If felt a little more like 55 days later.  Let me explain.  The book of Acts gives us this snapshot image of this thing called the "church" organically coming together sharing life, possessions, food and whatever else was needed.  This passage takes place some 40 days post resurrection, another 10 days post ascension and sometime after the Day of Pentecost.  So let's call it day 55 after Easter! 

While our service was Easter-y (if that is even a word).  Our post service activities felt a little more day 55ish. The current status of LifeGate is a bunch of young adults and young families, most of which have distance between themselves and their biological families.  So today, we were family!  We brought our food to share, our lives to entangle with one another.  In essence we were the church!  We were just the church as pictured on Day 55.  It was one of the best holidays I can remember (no offense Mom).  There was something right about it, something genuine, something Day 55 like.

Not saying that every holiday is going to look like this from now on.  But this moment in time was a reminder and a reflection of as much what Easter was purposed for: 1) lost being found and 2) the family of God being a family.  Thanks LifeGate family for being my family this Easter.

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