Monday Meditation
Queering the Count, Queering the Resurrection
Monday Meditation: Queering the Count, Queering the Resurrection
Eastertide invites us to live in the astonishment of resurrection — not as a single event, but as a widening field of wonder. And the Counting of the Omer, ancient and earthy, calls us to slow time down into steps, into breaths, into grains of becoming.
But what if we queer the count?
What if resurrection is not a return to what was, but a refusal to be finished?
What if each day we count is not a march toward Pentecost, but a practice of unfolding — softening the old linearities that told us history was neat, that salvation was clean?
To queer the Omer is to remember:
We are seeds, not blueprints.
We are threshold-keepers, not timekeepers.
We are wandering, questioning, kissing the edges of what it means to be whole.
Each day between now and the festival of Pentecost, we are invited to resist the demand for arrival.
Instead, we stitch another seam into the great unfinished tapestry of liberation.
We count not to control time —
but to savor it.
We resurrect not to reclaim certainty —
but to live into the open, trembling spaces of wonder.
Today, beloveds, I offer you a simple practice:
🌾 Find one thing that astonishes you today. Name it aloud. Bless it. Let it bless you back.
And a question for the road:
🌀 Where are you being called not to rush toward the ending, but to dwell a little longer in the sacred unfolding?
May we be a people of queer counting, slow resurrections, and stubborn joy.
Amen and amen.
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Mantra for the Week:
“I am an unfolding mystery. I honor the sacred slowness in me.”