When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.
~ Evan Esar, 1899-1995, American humorist
It never takes faith to believe what’s false. Never. But it does take faith to believe what’s true.
~ Jamie Winship, developed the identity method used in high conflict areas
We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.
~ David G. Benner, 1947- , Canadian psychologist
~~~~~~~~ John 20:1-2,11-18 ~~~~~~~~
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
~ Frederick Buechner, 1926-2022, American author, The Magnificent Defeat
Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.
~ Billy Crystal, 1948-, from Still Foolin’ ‘Em
Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it. It is a gift which radically alters our attitude toward everything in this world, including death. It makes it possible for us joyfully to affirm: “Death is no more!” Oh, death is still there, to be sure and we still face it and someday it will come and take us. But it is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very nature of death, made it a passage—a “passover,” a “Pascha”—into the Kingdom of God, transforming the tragedy of tragedies into the ultimate victory. “Trampling down death by death,” He made us partakes of His Resurrection. This is why at the end of the Paschal Matins we say: “Christ is risen and life reigneth! Christ is risen and not one dead remains in the grave!”
~ Alexander Schmemann, 1921-1983, Orthodox priest and theologian
