Easter Day

Happy Easter - may the day find you all dancing!

The world and time are the dance of the Lord

in emptiness.

The silence of the spheres is the music of

a wedding feast.

The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena

of life,

the more we analyze them out into strange finalities

and complex purposes of our own,

the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity and

despair.

But it does not matter much,

because no despair of ours can alter the

reality of things,

or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

Indeed we are in the midst of it,

and it is in the midst of us,

for it beats in our very blood, whether we

want it to or not.

Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget 

ourselves on purpose,

cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the

general dance.

(Thomas Merton:New seeds of contemplation)

P.S. If you can't find the time or energy to dance, you can listen to some sublime Sacred Music here.