Psalm 42:4-5 (NRSV) I pour out my soul when I think on these things: how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God, with the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among those who keep holy-day.
What memories inspire your actions as you set out each day to seek and serve Christ?
I remember the priest who first gave me permission to cherish the eucharist in unreasonable ways: “Let this be the most important thing about your days,” he said. “Let every other action of the preceding week be measured by its ability to deliver you to this encounter. Be completed here.” One year, after the Easter Vigil, I found myself staying late at the church with that priest and a group of friends. In pre-dawn hours, we used brown paper bags and hot irons to remove wax from the bricks of the floor of the nave, crawling alongside each other on hands and knees, grinning and giddy over the love of the Word made flesh.
Years later, my smile from that night still stretches from ear to ear. Memories of that vigil—echoes of the paschal shouts of “Alleluia!”—still stir my soul. My soul is poured out when I think about these things.
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