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Connections&
April 23, 2000
Easter
+ "Do not be amazed! You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him."
Mark 16:1-7
To be 'possible'
The teacher asked her second grade class what each wanted to be when they grew up.
"A football player," "a doctor," "a policeman," "a fireman," "an astronaut," "a teacher," came the answers from all over the classroom.
Every second grader responded, except Timmy. Timmy just sat quietly at his place.
So his teacher asked him, "Timmy, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Possible," Timmy replied.
"Possible?" asked the confused teacher.
"Possible," Timmy said.
"Timmy, what do you mean, you want to be 'possible'?"
"Well," Timmy explained, "my mom is always telling me that I'm impossible. So when I get big, I want to be possible."
CONNECTION: Easter is the great feast of possibilities. In his rising from the dead, Christ enables us to make possible in our own lives all that he taught and lived throughout his brief life among us: that love, compassion, generosity, humility and selflessness will ultimately triumph over hatred, bigotry, prejudice, despair, greed and death. The empty tomb is the sign of perfect hope -- that in Christ all things are possible, that we can make of our lives what we want them to be, that we can become the people God created us to become.
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