Lent Series: The In-Between Saturday

The Peace of Wild Things

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I’ve never liked the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday - I call it the in-between-Saturday. I’m like, “let’s just get on with it and the celebration.” ha! Call it impatience or always-wanting-to-be-happy or my pollyana personality. But, can we move Saturday along and just get to Easter already?

I’ve learned that we can’t move it along, though, can we? Just like grief or despair or ‘what just happened?’. Despite all of my efforts so far, I haven’t figured out a way to efficient-ize or fast-forward through the hard things, the in-between Saturdays of life, especially when the hard took our breath away. Easter is so complicated for me. A few years ago, it was the last ‘normal’ time for me. A few days after Easter that year is when my body would say ‘no more’ to all of the awfulness of COVID my family and I went through, and would then shut down for months on end. (If you’ve read the 2 middle chapters of my book, you know the story.) I think my body remembers that too because I can ‘feel’ Easter coming. Hence, the reaction to hurry up and get through Easter is real. =) So, maybe I can share how I’ve tried to slow down during the in-between-Saturday the last few years and what that slowing down has taught me, in hopes that it might encourage you.

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