Dear PCUM family,

"Well, [Easter is] the most profound holiday in the Christian tradition, and I think two things really come to mind. One is something that the great writer Barbara Johnson said, which is that we are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

And I think that every year the world seems more of a Good Friday world.

And it's excruciating, whether it's Japan or Libya, or whether it's your own best friends and their children who are sick, which is something that makes no sense when you think about a loving God. But it's a time when we get to remember that all the stuff that we think makes us of such value, all the time we spend burnishing our surfaces, is really not what God sees. God, he or she, loves us absolutely unconditionally. It's a come as you are party, and Easter, sense or no sense, tells us that God's love can't be stopped."

-Anne Lamott, Beyond Bunnies: The Real Meaning of the Easter Season

on NPR's All Things Considered, April 2011

In Christ's love,

Pastor Greg