Holy Week

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 Depending on your religion, it’sthe middle of Holy Week.  Easter is more special on the church calendar than Christmas.  But it seems this is the time of year people think about the finality of life.  Everyone faces death.  Easter is the time of hope and new birth.  It is a time for reflection.  I wish I had proof for all I’ve said but my own proof is myself.  

How do I know what I claim to know?  Angels.  My mind is never quiet although I might seem to be.  On this calm exterior is a very active interior.  I have been told I hide it well.  Only a few know how active my interior is.  It’s why I died nearly twice.  But I have no fear of death.  Absolutely none.  So, in that regard maybe I have no fears - except maybe for bears.  I fear pain more than I fear death.

I don’t have chronic pains.  But Easter isn’t the time to fear death, but on the contrary.  Easter is about hope and a new life.  My hope is in a new beginning.  It is a time to think about eternity.  What is after death?  Is Jesus proof enough for some?  Even if one thinks it’s all myth, the myth itself gives us something to think about.  Even a life can have new beginning.  This is our hope for Easter.  

Scrooge is a mythical hope for a new beginning in life.  But the Easter story is different.  Through the year we may think about the One Life that made a difference even if one thinks it’s mythology.  Santa and the Easter Bunny are part of that mythology.  Christmas celebrates His birth and Easter celebrates His death.  Easter causes us to pause and think about the end of life.

So, we pause and ask ourselves about the meaning of life.  Easter isn’t as universal as is Christmas.  But for me it’s both as I believe Jesus was born on April 12.  For me it is about both life and death.  I think about it as I smoke my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe this morning with Old Professor and my coffee this morning is Mt. Comfort Coffee from Guatemala.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.  

Dave 

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