Frederick Buechner:
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.
Source: Bread and Wine
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