Daily Nourishment for March 31, 2024: Easter, Dandelions, and More
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-15 minutes
“What is left now is the emptiness.” - Frederick Buechner
Pause.
Take six deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale while looking at this art found via artandtheology.org.
Prompt.
Read some words on Easter by Frederick Buechner
Here’s an excerpt:
“The symbol of Easter is the empty tomb. You can't depict or domesticate emptiness. You can't make it into pageants and string it with lights. It doesn't move people to give presents to each other or sing old songs. It ebbs and flows all around us, the Eastertide. Even the great choruses of Handel's Messiah sound a little like a handful of crickets chirping under the moon.
He rose. A few saw him briefly and talked to him. If it is true, there is nothing left to say. If it is not true, there is nothing left to say. For believers and unbelievers both, life has never been the same again. For some, neither has death. What is left now is the emptiness. There are those who, like Magdalen, will never stop searching it till they find his face.”
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Practice.
Set a timer for seven minutes and freewrite in response to one or more links above.
Or pick a few sentences from the essay or a few lines from the poem to copy down three or four times. You can treat it like a meditative practice. Go slow. Notice how your hand makes each letter, each shape. Pay attention.
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