“The thing about Easter is that Jesus comes back
from the dead both resurrected and broken, with wounds from the nails still
visible. People needed to see that it
really did happen, the brutality, the death.
He came back with a body, not like Casper or Topper. He didn’t come back
as the vague idea of spirit returning. No, it was physical, a wounded body. He
had lived. He had died, and then you could touch Him, and He could eat, and
these four things are as bodily as life gets.”—Anne Lamott, “Falling Better,”
in Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace (2014)
(The image accompanying this post is a detail from
the painting Resurrection, by the
Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.)
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