If it weren’t for Easter,

Hatred destroys, and life dies.

Beauty decays, the innocent suffer.

Without Easter,

My disabilities confine me,

My suffering is meaningless, and

Why should anyone care?

Without Easter,

We expend ourselves in pretense and illusion,

For we come from random nothing

And end in random nothing

But if Jesus rose from the dead,

Love is stronger than hate,

Life is stronger than death.

Earthly beauty, though evanescent,

Foreshadows Beauty Everlasting, and,

Like Love, has a presence outside time.

My disabilities can transform me for

Suffering borne with patience has great merit,[i]

It is the way of the Cross, and

God cares.

A man sees the outward appearance, but God looks into the heart.[ii]

A man is only what he is before God, nothing more,[iii]

But also nothing less.

I am beloved.

You are beloved.

Our origin is love, our destiny is love.[iv]

Only God is forever.

Better to take His side, and

Be an Easter people.

[i] St Francis of Assisi

[ii] 1 Sam 16:7

[iii] St Francis of Assisi

[iv] St. John of the Cross