How Do You Practice New Life & Easter When the World’s On Edge? How Easter Is Just Beginning & is the Real New Year

I water the Easter lilies on Day 3 of Eastertide. I confess:Have I sometimes been far too quick to put away all the celebration decorations, because maybe somewhere, somehow, there’s been a part of me that considers what we’ve been celebrating is more of an optional decoration in our life – instead of a reality to be sustained and actually lived? But the whole world feels a bit on edge, and now, maybe more than ever, how do we practice new life — as the center of the practice of our fatih?