Christ is Risen! Alleluia!!

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter.  I have to say mine was almost perfect.  Having kids around have a way of making the simple wonderful.  It was blessed day for sure.  I look at how times have changed for my family, even looking back to last year, and see that although we are often very crazy busy and things are not always the way we want them to be we are very blessed.   Easter is a time for us to renew and review.  It is easy to see Easter as a rebirth, but it is also a time for reflection.  Our Priest said we need to think of this end of lent as just the beginning.  We give up items for Lent but return to our same ways the moment we are able to, but we need to take what we have done and continue to grow from what we have learned.   It seems easy to do anything for 40 days, but we need to continue past those 40 days to our every day.
So in these days of the Easter season, I challenge you to challenge yourself.  I challenge you to take each day as an opportunity for a rebirth, a renewing of your spirit.  It can be in simple measures, in simple steps.   If each day you take one step to make your life better, to make the life of those around you better, think what your life will be like in one year.  Think what the life of those around you will be like if you take one simple step each day.   A new life, a new beginning for everyone starting today!   Christ is Risen! Alleluia!  Let us take this moment to reflect and remember!