{"id":61774,"date":"2023-04-30T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61774"},"modified":"2023-05-07T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:08:58","slug":"easter-egg-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/easter-egg-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Egg in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our children had a pretty fantastic Easter.\u00a0 Their Easter was primarily spectacular due to the FOUR Easter egg hunts they enjoyed.\u00a0 With the blessing of seeing two aunties and a family friend, our son and daughter made out like Easter bunny bandits\u2014chocolate chicks, jelly beans, bubbles, and various assorted treasures\u2026at least if you\u2019re between 3 and 5 \u00bd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61776 alignleft\" 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had never hidden a real Easter egg in my life (because I intend to eat them) tried to shift the children\u2019s attention elsewhere\u2014but this would not do.\u00a0 After what turned into tears of pleading, I finally agreed to let them hide our painted eggs (Dad was away, mind you).<\/p>\n<p>The children hid eleven eggs.<\/p>\n<p>We found ten.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are now, in the midst of our Easter season.\u00a0 By Easter IV, our initial Easter exuberance may have begun to wane.\u00a0 People seem increasingly nonplussed when you say \u201cHappy Easter.\u201d\u00a0 We start to spot more dead lilies.\u00a0 (Or maybe your parishioners scuttle off with the dying plants before the arts and environment committee tosses them in the dumpster.)\u00a0 With hope, if you also dyed Easter eggs, you have long since eaten them.\u00a0 We ate ours.\u00a0 Well, ten of them.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, we still have a long way to go in the Easter season.\u00a0 How can we sustain that Easter joy in the midst of what seems to be a rapidly normalizing life of struggle, work, and hope sometimes dashed?<\/p>\n<p>It has occurred to me recently that there\u2019s perhaps a reason why walking through the raucous wonder of the Paschal Triduum into the Easter Season sometimes feels like entering a quietly deadening desert\u2014a strangely quiet setting, given the joy the liturgical texts suggest we should be experiencing.\u00a0 When our ancestors in faith walked through their own Passover night into the life of Exodus\u2026they were <em>not <\/em>walking into unrelenting joy.\u00a0 They walked into a desert.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the People of Israel had just witnessed untold miracles of God, were benefitting from the leadership of Moses, and had a literal pillar of fire to guide them.\u00a0 Perhaps the exuberance they first felt when crossing the Red Sea should have sustained them.\u00a0 Yet, it did not.\u00a0 They also felt nonplussed by rejoicing, and wondered with increasing grumbling about the labor of freedom that lay before them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the Easter season unrelentingly invites us to remember the joy of the Gospel\u2014the joy that Christ alone brings.\u00a0 The joy that can only come when you find that treasure in the field, that lost coin, that lost sheep\u2026or that lost Easter egg\u2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61775 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Easter-Egg-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, 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