An empty tomb,
A stone rolled away
Speak of the Saviour
Who rose Easter Day.
But that was centuries
And centuries ago,
And we ask today
"Was it really so?"
"Did He walk on earth
And live and die
And return to His Father
To dwell on high?"
We were not there
To hear or see,
But our hopes and dreams
Of eternity
Are centered around
The Easter story
When Christ ascended
And rose in glory.
And life on earth
Has not been the same,
Regardless of what
The skeptics claim.
For, after the Lord
Was crucified,
Even the ones who had
Scoffed and denied-
Knew that something
Had taken place
That nothing could ever
Remove or erase.
For "hope" was born
In the soul of man,
And "faith" to believe
in God's Master Plan
Stirred in the hearts
To dispel doubt and fear
And that Faith has grown
With each passing year.
For the Hope of man
Is the Easter story,
For life is robbed
Of all meaning and glory
Unless man knows
That he has a "goal"
And a "resting place"
For his searching soul.
- Poem by Helen Steiner Rice
He came and took me by the hand
Up to a red rose tree,
He kept His meaning to Himself,
But gave the rose to me.
I did not pray Him to lay
The mystery to me;
Enough the rose was heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.
- Poem by Ralph Hodgson
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people
and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul II
O blessed Saviour,
give me grace like Thee,
to make Religion my first,
and chiefest care,
and devoutly to observe,
all solemn times,
and all holy Rites,
which relate to Thy worship.
- Quote by Thomas Ken
If Easter says anything to
us today, it says this:
You can put truth in a grave,
but it won't stay there.
You can nail it to a cross,
wrap it in winding sheets
and shut it up in a tomb,
but it will rise!
- Easter Quote by
Clarence W. Hall
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