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The Vicar's Notes

The Wonder of Easter

4/16/2018

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“Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved. I can prove the law of gravity by dropping a shoe out the window. I can prove that the world is round if I’m clever at that sort of thing, that the radio works, that light travels faster than sound. I cannot prove that life is better than death or love better than hate. I cannot prove the greatness of the great or the beauty of the beautiful. I cannot even prove my own free will… Faith can’t prove a damned thing. Or a blessed thing either.”   - Frederick Buechner
 
On April 1st, Easter Sunday and April Fools Day will occur simultaneously – on the same day!  The last time it happened was 1956, before this congregation (in any form) even existed! It’s a strange confluence of two radically different days—one, the heart of Christian hope; the other, a deep dive into white lies and petty pranks.
 
This coincidence is interesting to me in light of several recent conversations I’ve had with folks at Grace.  Easter, it turns out, means a lot of things to a lot of people.  For some, Easter means triumph—that in Jesus’ resurrection God is proved highest and mightiest, once and for all.  For some, it means beauty—sunrises and spring flowers and lush green trees.  For others, Easter means hope—that new life can come out of the driest, darkest places.  And for still more, it calls forth enlightenment—a new consciousness, one that enables those who attain it to live an elevated existence above the broken, violent, impoverished ways that seem to otherwise plague this world in every corner.
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12/14/2020 05:37:20 am

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