Easter Friday: Trumpet of Imagination

Happy Resurrection Day, friends! May you know new life, peace, and hope today, tomorrow, and forever. Easter Sunday kicks off a week in the liturgical calendar known as the Easter Octave and a seven-week festival called Eastertide or The Great Fifty Days. I'll be posting little bits of beauty each day of the Easter Octave and each Sunday following that. 

Read all the way to the end of the post for a way you can help us practice resurrection!

Trumpet of Imagination

“The trumpet of imagination, like the trumpet of the Resurrection, calls the dead out of their graves…The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”

—G. K. Chesterton

Watch: The Blanket Octopus and it's AMAZING Blanket! 

The Blanket Octopus, shot in the Lembeh Straits on a Blackwater Night Dive with NAD Lembeh.

Read:  Psalm 136; Exodus 13:1-2,11-16; 1 Corinthians 15:51-58; Luke 24:1-12

Pray: Collect for Friday of Easter Week  

Almighty Father, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise for our justification: Give us grace so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve you in purity of life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Listen: A new Spotify playlist - Resurrection 2020. Add it to your account by clicking ‘Save to My Library.’

Do: Send me a photo and caption of yourself practicing resurrection. Here's one from patrons Katie & Shaun Fox.

For years, Shaun and I have each had a desk in our bedroom. It worked fine, but that was back when he went to work everyday at an office. Now that he’s at home videoconferencing all day, and my spring quarter started up this week, it wasn’t working out so well. So my sweet, sacrificial, hardworking husband spent the past two weekends clearing out what was a storage nook in our laundry room, and turning it into my own built-in desk and shelves. I’m so happy with how it turned out! I love you, Shaun Fox! Thank you so much!!!

Eastertide 2020: A guidebook to help us practice resurrection together: I'm excited to offer you a brand new resource I've created along with Brian and the Children's Ministry Director for our church (and fellow patron!), Amy Willers. While we created this for our church family, I'm extending the invitation to the Sacramental Life Patreon community as well. You can print out the pdf or use it digitally. There are several prompts for sharing photos that you can send to me at tamara@tamarahillmurphy.com. 

The guidebook is a helpful, shelter-in-place supplement to our regular Eastertide list: 50 ways to Practice Resurrection during the 50 days of Eastertide! 

Choose 1 idea or 50, but whatever you do, do it with gusto!  (and send me a photo)

I look forward to hearing from you! 

Tamara

p.s. You can read here for a brief description of the liturgical season of Eastertide, and see previous Eastertide posts here.