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Category: Holidays / Topics: Easter • Faith • Holidays • Jesus
In Praise of Easter
Posted: April 4, 2010
The ultimate grave robber…
Graveyards are a fact of life.
Just ask my father's widowed wife.
Those granite tombstones punctuate
a lawn that's hard to mow.
Such markers call to mind the pain
of waging war (with Death) in vain.
The landscape littered with gray stones
is lifeless, cold and dark.
But there's an empty grave I'm told
that's far away and very old.
A not-so-final resting place
whose vacancy inspires.
Within the earth they laid my Christ
drained of the blood that paid my price.
But mourning proved quite premature
as night gave way to day.
That empty cave's a mystery
that fills my heart with ecstasy.
This is the bedrock of our faith
that robs Sleep of its sting.
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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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