I was on Facebook today and a friend noted that Easter is not a single festival day but a season of new life and re-creation in Christ. It made me think of the quote below and the gift we have been given- to participate in this season of newness and life that has been passed down from sinner/saint hybrids through the ages. Resurrection living was here before we were born and will move forward after we are gone. What will we do with it in the meantime that we call our life?
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
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