Easter isn’t over.

It’s worth remembering that Easter is 50 days, seven Sundays. For whatever reason, even though most of us know that there are six Sundays in Lent, we tend to forget that Easter is more than one, big Sunday. For every party I’ve ever thrown, the preparations have always taken longer than the event. But that’s not the way God works. We prepare for six weeks and then we celebrate for seven. Easter isn’t over.

Easter always feels impossible before it happens. If you’ve ever wanted to experience your faith the same way the first disciples did, then just remember all those moments you’ve had right before a resurrection, when you didn’t even contemplate that it could happen. Peter, James, John, and all the rest; they all followed Jesus, heard what he said (even if it seems like they weren’t listening). They were there, and they still just knew that death was the end.

Easter always feels impossible. But why do we need it to be possible? Shouldn’t we tend to what’s possible and leave the impossible to God? 

W.H. Auden wrote in his epic poem, “For the Time Being”:

We who must die demand a miracle.

How could the Eternal do a temporal act,

The Infinite become a finite fact?

Nothing that is possible can save us:

We who must die demand a miracle.

Auden is, of course, referring to the Christmas story of incarnation: The Infinite become a finite fact…. But God is always about the business of the impossible – saving, raising, even loving. From Christmas Day to Good Friday and on the well-worn path out of the empty tomb – God is always finding the next impossible thing to forgive and to bless.

I’ll bet there are moments when you’ve come to the end of your love. A person you just couldn’t stay open to, a moment you just couldn’t forgive yourself. We’ve all come up to a point where love feels impossible. And when that happens, we should entrust the impossible to God.

Easter isn’t over. Two more Sundays, about a dozen days. But will resurrection stop on May the 18th and have to wait until late March of next year? Will new life cease to be born over this summer? Will God abandon us to the mid-terms? God is in every impossible thing. If you find that impossible to believe, your faith might be stronger than you realize.

You tend to what’s possible; leave the impossible to God. Easter isn’t over.