The world is saturated with suffering, but resurrection people are called to live differently. Pain is acknowledged without surrendering to it. Belief in healing and renewal persists, even when reality points to despair. Anger and grief are real, but must be directed toward justice, dignity, and compassion. Faith is not an escape—it is a summons to act. Fear and hopelessness do not get the final word. Standing firm like those who remained at the cross, resurrection people persist in love, service, and truth. The call is not to retreat, but to rise. Don’t let death have the last word in your story. The resurrection challenges complacency and demands full presence. There is still work to be done, and too much goodness within to leave buried.
Go now with the courage to live fully,
refusing to let death have the last word in your story.
(inspired by Barbara Clementine Harris, Easter Grace in a Good Friday World; Mary Lou Kownacki, Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty)