Many of us, regardless of how we see God, like to think that when we and our loved ones die, we will one day, in another life, see each other again.  Who would not?  It's a wonderful thought, that you will one day see those you love most again.

Yet consider this:  if Jesus did not rise, if Jesus did not conquer death and enable all of us to find new life, we, of all people, as Paul notes in this letter to the Corinthian church, are most to be pitied . . . we are hoping for and believing in something that will never happen.

But Jesus did indeed rise.  And all of us, if we want, if we trust in him and the fact of his resurrection, will one day live rise, too.  One day, we will all live again.

Happy Easter!