ANXIETY AND FEAR are what we know
best in this fantastic century of ours. Wars and rumors of wars. From
civilization itself to what seemed the most unalterable values of the
past, everything is threatened or already in ruins. We have heard so
much tragic news that when the news is good we cannot hear it.
But the proclamation of Easter
Day is that all is well. And as a Christian, I say this not with the
easy optimism of one who has never known a time when all was not well
but as one who has faced the Cross in all its obscenity as well as in
all its glory, who has known one way or another what it is like to live
separated from God. In the end, his will, not ours, is done. Love is the
victor. Death is not the end. The end is life. His life and our lives
through him, in him. Existence has greater depths of beauty, mystery,
and benediction than the wildest visionary has ever dared to dream.
Christ our Lord has risen.
- Originally published in The Magnificent Defeat
He has risen indeed. Halleluiah
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