[To my Orthodox family and friends, the same joyous greeting I gave my Catholic and Protestant readers last week: Χριστος Ανεστη! He is risen from the tomb; happy Easter!]
"When my thoughts and concerns are so deep that my eyes are fixed on the ground, like a ray of sunshine bursting through storm clouds comes God's voice, 'Look up and see what my love has wrought!' And as I raise my eyes, in branches far above my head waiting to be discovered are sleepy tawny frog-mouth owls, or mother wrens perched on wee nests, or else there'll be a flock of black cockatoos wending their way to a nearby food source. When the weather is grey and the roads fog-shrouded, look up at the sky, for among the hills there'll be the trace of the first hues of a rainbow." -- Rev. Vera I. Bourne, "The Free Gift of Grace", published in Whosoever v.5 #1 July/August 2000