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Category: Holidays / Topics: Easter • Faith • Nature
Easter in Disguise
Posted: March 23, 2008
The Son's victory is revealed in Mother Nature&hellip
Disaster loomed. The end seemed sure.
The Lord of life was dead.
Good Friday was a bad nightmare.
The robins chirped their dread.
But like the boy who plugged the dike
to keep a flood at bay,
the Son of God stood up to death
on resurrection day.
An empty grave means we don't mourn
as those who have no hope.
What Jesus did so long ago
gives us the means to cope.
The nature of this mystery
breaks forth from neath the ground.
Creation's rhythm witnesses
to truth Christ's followers found.
The tulips soon will lift their heads
to trumpet Easter's song.
The bulbs we buried in the earth
still live though they seem gone.
In Mother Nature, winter's grief
gives way to joyful spring.
It's Easter's message in disguise.
No wonder millions sing...
"Christ the Lord is risen today!
Alleluia!"
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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