Practice resurrection stories from me for Eastertide & Ordinary Time!
Welcome to the introductory post for a scaled-down version of this year’s Practice Resurrection series!
I’m in a season of reassessing my callings and am finding myself torn between introducing you to stories from folks I admire from around the world and investing more time and energy in writing and sharing my own stories. I haven’t figured out the balance yet. So, for this year, at least, I’m going to use the Mad Farmer’s words to inspire my own storytelling. I write in hope that something I share will encourage you to think differently about your own life and to respond to that new way of thinking with joy and courage and new ways of living.
As a reminder, here’s the poem that I turn to over and over and especially during the 50 days of Eastertide each year.
I plan to share this series of stories throughout Eastertide and Ordinary Time. I look forward to opening up the memory treasure chest and sharing some of my favorite tales with you over the next few months. I hope you’ll spend some time doing the same and passing along a few tales of your own!
In the meantime, check out the Practice Resurrection guest posts from previous years archived on the Resurrection Stories page!
*“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” from The Country of Marriage, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1973. Also published by Counterpoint Press in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1999; The Mad Farmer Poems, 2008; New Collected Poems, 2012.