I was asked to participate in another “Theoblogger challenge” on the website Patheos. The question I needed to answer, in 100 words or less, was “Why I Need the Resurrection.”
Here’s my answer:
Shower, breakfast, kids to school, myself to work, go running, make dinner, kids to bed, check email, sleep. It’s easy to forget. But after the earthquake in Haiti, I need the resurrection. When my friend’s parents die in a plane crash, I need the resurrection. When another IED explodes, I need the resurrection. And when I see the flash of blue and yellow of a bird in flight, when apartheid ends, when my kids hold hands, I need the resurrection. In the sorrow and the joy, the resurrection reminds me: goodness will last, light overcomes darkness, life triumphs over death.

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