traveling on

I have just returned from a road trip to North Carolina and the next couple of weeks will involve a lot of traveling. Traveling is a funny thing for me - it is not usually part of my job and therefore marks a break from the usual. However, especially in airports, I am always aware that there are plenty of people around - and I am usually thinking about the people who work there - who are intersecting my unusual day when their day is perfectly ordinary

This vaugue real/surreal feeling often accompanies this time of the Christian year for me. Unlike Christmas , when most people are getting ready for celebration, with or without Jesus - Holy Week and Easter seem often to be a journey surrounded by the ordinary. As we navigate Jesus last journey, as it becomes our journey we also carry on living in a world which often seems unaware of anything which is going on in the Christian year.

It is an ongoing and taxing question to us as to how to live in and yet not be of the world. As we come to celebrate and remember Christ incarnate in the Easter mystery we are also reminded that we are called to be His body in the world.