the antidote to a rainy day

The cherry blossoms are gone, and we have a dreary, rainy, chilly Good Friday. While I think the weather is actually appropriate for the day [the priest at mass today agreed], I couldn't help looking for a quick pick-me-up to get me through the rest of the work day. How about a cherry blossom bride?



I love Reem Acra, and I love wedding dresses with sleeves, though mine is actually neither. But of course I love mine too, and happen to think it's sort of perfect - at least for moi.

And to save this post from complete frippery, here's a wonderful thought from the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus Christ:

We…know how the story turns out, yet we neither rush to Easter nor, when we come to Easter, do we put Good Friday behind us as though it were a nightmare past. The risen Christ, and indeed Christ returning in glory to judge the living and the dead, is always the crucified Christ who bears the scars. It is finished but it is not over. The reality of salvation is definitively settled, but history continues to be cruciform, a way of the cross for pilgrims headed home. Salvation is “now” and “not yet”; it is a matter of certitude and a matter of seeing in a mirror dimly; it is a present possession and a hope to be worked out with fear and trembling.

I hope you all have a blessed Easter weekend!