To be “Easter people” is to be, starting now, eternally brought to new life by the Source of life, love, energy, and vision that is God. But our new life, just like the new life of Jesus, is brought about as the culmination of the Paschal Mystery played out in us. We ourselves are realized as truly sons and daughters of God when we are able to surrender our prayer and our lives into God’s hands. It is no mistake, then, that the basic “movements” of contemplative practice are detachment and welcoming: clinging to absolutely nothing yet being willing to receive all of a given moment to serve as a conduit of the Divine Life which surrounds and enlivens all things. Detachment echoes Good Friday, when Jesus surrendered to God, not only his pain and suffering, but every good and glory of his human and Divine life. Jesus demonstrates absolute trust that his Father, his Source, will receive everything — pain, suffering, good, and glory – and return the gift as transformed and resurrected life. Easter morning is Jesus’s own total welcome of all that the transfigured life offered by the Father through the Spirit. So, the work of welcoming and detachment in contemplative practice offers a path to our own continual Easter transformation.