Bunny Hop & Easter Hope

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Individuals sometimes act nobly in the midst of war’s great ignobility.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You put us in the place of tension between life and death, or perhaps in the cycle of life and death. Sometimes it appears like a bleak Saturday, but I know a bright Sunday is on its way. Death comes in so many forms, but then, so does new life arrive in countless forms.

Some people deal in bringing death, in the hope that good/life will come of it. Some deal in bringing new life, in full awareness that death is bound to come.

But then? You’ve taught me: more life surely follows.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“I am the Greatest!!!”

[No, He didn’t say it, but we probably would not argue the point if He had.]

D. Blog: On Easter

Baskets of fake grass. Bunnies that bring eggs. Perhaps some new clothes. So much candy as to rival what’s dispensed on Halloween and Valentine’s Day. And if we notice, a cross in the foreground with mystery or superstition in the background.

We’ve pretty well messed up this holiday. How can we possibly connect it with the empty tomb? How can we possibly hear His voice saying death could not silence Him? How can we possibly know His presence in the locked chambers of our minds and hearts?

Yet it happens. He comes to us on our way and we know the cross and the tomb could not put an end to the invasion that Divinity lets loose in our world. The tyranny of evil and death need not rule us.