What Easter Means to Me

Scholastic Writing Contest 2020

Honorable Mention

If it weren’t for Easter,

Hatred destroys, and life dies.

Beauty decays, the innocent suffer.

Without Easter, 

My disabilities limit 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.

Beauty now, though evanescent,

Gives me hope for beauty everlasting,

My disabilities can transform me for

Suffering borne with patience has great merit,

It is the way of the Cross, and

 God cares.

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

A man is only what he is before God, nothing more, 

But also nothing less.

I am beloved.

You are beloved.

Our origin is love, our destiny is love.

Only God is forever.

Better to take His side, and

Be an Easter people.