Billy's Bridge Trail

The Boulder Mountains are behind me

Happy Resurrection Sunday!

This morning, Matt, Bess, Lucas, Nora and I hiked the Billy's Bridge Trail between Ketchum and Galena Pass.  The trail is right next to the Big Wood River near the Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness.  The sun shining off the white snow was very bright--I am grateful that Matt gave me a pair of his sunglasses.  We all brought our snowshoes, but we didn't need to use them.  The trail was fairly well-packed.  There were several people hiking the trail and cross-country skiing.  It was a beautiful day to be outside.

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This is a comment I posted on the blog Richard’s Watch:

HE IS RISEN! — Time and Quantum Effects in Jesus’ Resurrection

The image of the Shroud of Turin and the caption “34 Trillion Watts” reminds me of this scripture:

Hebrews 1:3: “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power . . .”

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ defied/defies time and space. The Power of God invades this sin-sick world and becomes a Light in a dark place. Those who exercise their faith in the finished work of the cross can also partake of the power of God in their lives. Timelessness invades time and space and sin and raises it from the dead. The Presence of God is timeless; the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is timeless–even though we celebrate this timeless event on a calendar of time.

Have a very blessed Resurrection SONDAY or SON-OF-GOD-DAY. (SONDAY sounds more timeless than Sunday).

“Enough! the Resurrection,
A heart’s-clarion! Away grief’s gasping, | joyless days, dejection.
Across my foundering deck shone
A beacon, an eternal beam. | Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to the residuary worm; | world’s wildfire, leave but ash:
In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, | since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, | patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.”

– Gerard Manley Hopkins, “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection”

“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east . . .”

– Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”