It has been a few days but I had wanted to gather my thoughts before putting them down on paper. This was a tremendous Easter for me. I went to my first Stations of the Cross. It was actually done live with players and was incredibly powerful. I always new the story of what happened, vaguely, but to see it enacted was at times very difficult to watch. I just couldn't get past the pain. It has compelled me to see the movie "The Passion of Christ." I think one of the hardest things for me has been having faith. What does that mean really? I think over the past couple of years that has been a big question for me and the conclusion that I have found is that I'm not going to be given a magic formula for the answer. The answer has to come from within and I have to relinquish the need to have total control! Wow, that is hard! I have friends that are just so amazing with their sense of faith and how it is such a big important part of their lives. I look on them as my touchstones to really believing in faith and having it be important in my life. Our Easter mass was amazing! I left mass feeling so at peace, a peace I don't think I have every felt. I guess you could say I had one of those "Aha" moments. Now, I'm not silly to think there won't be ups and downs, but that is life! Again, I'm such a work in progress.
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