How'd we get here?

Imagine for a minute you're in a different place...or at least, a very different time. You're in someone's house eating dinner, ready to go to work tomorrow doing whatever you may need to do (whether that's around the house or at your job, depending on if you work the next day).

Yesterday, you were at a funeral...a funeral of a person you respected very much, who was full of promise, taken much too soon, taken, before the world could fully experience their potential. You helped seal the grave, you were one of the last ones to leave the cemetery, but you had to, because you had somewhere to be later that night. You couldn't stay in that moment as long as you may have liked.

So tonight, you've eaten and you're wishing you had done something more to the grave - marked it, or something, so it doesn't feel so cold and plain and just part of the "scenery" - you want people to know who this person was, so you at least want to mark the grave somehow. But it's dark, and you can't really see very well (the route is poorly lit, if the lights even work at all). So you go home and do other things, promising yourself you'll go there the next morning.

It's been at least 36 hours since the funeral and as you leave to go to the cemetery, you're not entirely sure what you'll see when you get there, because in your mourning two days ago, you're not entirely sure what it looked like. But you still want to mark it somehow, taking along things to remember the person by.

So when you finally get there, which was hard, because you weren't sure exactly where it was, you're still confused, in fact, now more confused. The gravesite looks fresh, like no one had ever been buried there. Is your mind playing tricks on you?

Convinced you're "losing it", you get back in the car, and go find someone else who knew the person well...you want them to see if you're losing it or there really is something strange going on here. Well, you actually end up bringing two people back, and they want to be the first to call you insane or see if what you saw is really true, so they race. But in some twist, the second person gets to the grave first (the first one stopped short).

They're not entirely sure what to make of it either, but they have to get back to work before the boss gets mad.

So here you are, sitting there, wondering what in the world is going on, when someone from the cemetery comes up to you and you want to see if he sees it. Only, there's something a little strange about this. You've never been to this cemetery before this week, yet he knows your name. And you're like, what is going on, when you realize, the resurrection you had been hearing about for several weeks, months, even years, has finally come true - this cemetery is no longer a place to mourn the dead, but celebrate that they're alive, eternally, and he's here to prove it!

Different perspective on Easter, isn't it?

The rules for the meme are:
--Link to the person who tagged you. (Prepare Ye)
--Post the rules on your blog.
--Share six non important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
--Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. (since this is new, don't have anyone else)
--Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. (see above)

So here are the six non important things/habits/quirks about me:

1- When I have to be somewhere I want to be, I'm usually at least easily on-time, if not considerably early...if on the other hand, it's errands or something like that...most of the time punctual if not slightly late (although I can honestly say I've never been more than 2 minutes late to any class, except coming back from a 10 minute break, but the guy deserved my tardiness that day...partially because it was his fault...he talked to me at least 2 minutes of the break to start with

2- One of my favorite shows (I liked it for a year before my surgery, but when you're laying on your back pretty much and can't do much else, you like them better) is Boy Meets World...although I seem to have a thing for "old reruns"...like Still Standing, even Hope and Faith and dare I say it...Golden Girls and Mama's Family (see how much you remember the 80s...which came first of those two - and what spun off from them?)...and Full House too and Survivor, Big Brother when it's not too inappropriate...so yeah, I'm kinda a reality/rerun kinda person (I do admit I watched Grey's for a while too)

3- I'm friends with people I would never have expected to be friends with in college...and the fact is, I'm closer with them than I was my HS friends (either during or after - the last time I talked to anyone from my graduating class in person was I'm venturing to say homecoming the year after graduation)

4- One of my favorite passions, and if it makes me a nerd or a geek, so be it :-)...is liturgy faithful to Lutheran tradition but also contemporary enough it's relevant to Joe Smith in the pew...one thing I helped introduce (I'm on our church's worship committee) is the differentiation of seasons, because, I kid you not, for as long as anyone can remember back, we never really had differences in worship between Palm Sunday and Easter (or Easter and Lent, either)...except maybe we didn't sing alleluia - that was about it though.

5- I have never run into anyone on the scooter...(and Lenten confession I have wanted to a few times - not to injure them, but to either tease or make sure they know they're in the way...because let's face it, the horn on that thing just doesn't do the job)

6- OK, since a Gettysburgian (if that's even a word, if it's not, oh well) was the one who tagged me on this...the 6th one has to be this...people say I can be in my element at our church (since I'm on two boards and have been assistant in the service (reading, doing the "A" parts, communion, or something else) for almost 2.5 years now...but I think I was more in my element at LTSG's Seminary Weekend this weekend than I've felt in a long time (and that includes the year I had at Butler in Indianapolis and really loved freshman year of college).

So there ya go...use the info, don't use it...it's out there for public consumption now though...