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Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast where we hope to provide a place of connection

rest and encouragement for you who are on the journey of living out your passion and purpose

and Christ just like us. So we hope you settle in today. We've got an awesome show for you

about Easter and the resurrection people. My name is Sister Miriam James and I am joined by my dear

friends Heather Kim and Michelle Binsinger. Michelle, how are you today in the Easter season?

How's it going girl? Oh, I am doing just dandy sister. I am awake and I've had coffee.

I'm like a certain Canadian that we're on the show with and um, rare and to go. How are you,

Miss Heather? Hey, you know, I can't be faulted that I live on the West Coast and it is really

quite early. I think it's actually still kind of dark outside right now as you guys are like up

and at them and your hair is relatively looking good and sisters looking all fresh and nice and I feel like

I've been hit by a truck this morning to be honest with you. But I know I stand in solidarity with a

lot of my sisters who are listening as I've just had four hours of sleep and was rushing to get

school lunches packed before I ran down here to hop into this. So I'm just now starting my coffee.

So hopefully I'll be speaking coherent sentences. Thanks for taking one for the team Heather. We appreciate that.

Oh, you know what? At the same time it's like, ah, this is so good to be with you. So it's a nice way to start the day.

It is, it is life giving and I think we're going to really dive into this great topic today. We're going to talk about

the Easter people and our quote for the day is actually from John Paul II who kind of appropriated from

St. Augustine and John Paul II said, do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and

Hallelujah is our song. And I noticed when I was looking at that quote, a St. Augustine said, we are

an Easter people and that John Paul II said, we are the Easter people and I love that kind of

specification of where the people like this is our hallelujah, which is a shout of joy, a praise, a

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