With no traffic, about an hour 15 to Red Rocks.  Parking closes at 5am.  So…needed to set my alarm for WAY WAY EARLY Sunday morn.  Colorado bucket list item: Easter Sunrise @ Red Rocks 🙂

Late airport return from PA, home just before midnite.  Crazy tired but better sleep than Saturday nite’s rental car snooze.  Quick shower, hot chocolate to-go & layered UP warm.  Outdoor service high above Denver, morning forecast: light SNOW.  Just details, right?

Arrived early, queued for parking.  Quick walk thru the Colorado Music Hall of Fame before finding a seat outdoors.  Blanket & a parka, ready for Easter Sunday – HA! – me & 11,000 others.

Sponsored by the Colorado Council of Churches, the 5 major Protestant branches took their seats on stage.  Mix of music ensued including Korean Christian singer Soo-Jin Kim.  Volunteers passed milk cartons to collect offering, offsetting the cost of this FREE program.  And then…the main event.

Rev. Tawana Davis did NOT disappoint.  Her message: “Resurrecting Hope”.

More perfect?  As Reverend Davis finished her sermon, the sky opened & snow fell on Holy Easter Sunday – snow in Colorado, mighty perfect ❄  White doves released.  Spirit-fed day.

Easter Part 2: our family’s annual Mexican Easter tradition.  Not forgone, postponed a couple hours while Papa Bear catches some zzz’s.  LIVING B-I-G this holiday.  FULL day, stay tuned.

Russian Easter

 

The most common phrase is Христос воскрес! (Chris-TOS vas-KRES) Literally that means, “Christ is risen!”  Whether Христос воскрес (Christ is risen) is said as a greeting from one person to another or in a service shouted by the priest, the congregation responds with Воистину воскрес (va-IST-in-oo vas-KRES) which means “In truth He is risen!”  Some people even answer the phones with these greetings instead of the usual алло (Hello).

Easter Sunrise Service, Red Rocks Amphitheatre

“Resurrecting Hope” by Rev. Tawana Davis