April 5, 2015
The teacher asked her second grade
class what they want 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 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.”
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 be become.
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