Easter People

We are an Easter people.

Easter people are made of of Maundy Thursday people,

who sometimes betray the people they love,

who sometimes deny their Lord and their friends,

who sometimes strike out in anger,

who understand what it means to fall

We are an Easter people.

Easter people are made up of Good Friday people,

who helplessly watch a loved one die,

who sometimes feel their world crumble,

who now and then feel lost and lonely,

who once in a while know despair,

who have known pain and fear.

We are an Easter people.

Easter people are Resurrection people,

who see the butterfly in a caterpillar,

who recognize life in the midst of darkness,

who live for peace in a world of war,

who know beyond reason of articulation

that death is swallowed up in victory, Finally.

Once and for all.

Therefore, in the face of failure, fear, and pain, we are an Easter people.

We are a people of Hope.