Jan Helton Artworks

April 12, 2020 Newsletter

Happy Easter to all!

Flowers for Lunch, original 11" x 12" watercolor painting.

Happy Easter to you! I hope this special time of year finds you well. Trees budding, flowers blooming, rabbits nibbling, birds nesting...all these things give us hope that some semblance of normalcy will return, and is returning, even as we watch what is happening day-by-day in the COVID-19 battle.

I love this poem written by Kitty O'Meara:

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

We all long for the day when the people can join together again and be healed. Though you may be physically separated from your loved ones this Easter, I hope you find new and creative ways to celebrate together, whether it be with online church services, pictures, phone calls, FaceTime or Zoom.

This year everything is so different, bizarre really, yet one thing will never change: Christ is Risen. He is risen indeed.

"...that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures..." (1 Corintians 3-4)

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