Thank God for bursting life, for greening leaf, for sign of Spirit's sowing! The Easter sunrise brings the light that can illumine all our knowing! What crucifixion failed to kill, is well alive this Day: a peace-determined Way, God's realm of hope and promise, of peace lived in promise, as Jesus lived this promise. Thank God for courage raised to roll away the stones of dead tradition, to crack the codes of death, to give the fearful powers no free permission! What crucifixion failed to kill, is well alive this Day, a fairer, kinder Way, a signatory to justice, commitment to justice as Jesus lived this justice. Thank God for feisty souls who let no weight of history deter them! Who liberate the faith who let the Easter air revive and stir them! What crucifixion failed to kill, is well alive this Day: non-violent, this Way, a charter for compassion, the power of compassion as Jesus lived compassion. Thank God for fresh-baked bread, the loaf we share, the yeasty fragrance rising, the bubbling up of hope, the wine outpoured in joy of God's devising! What crucifixion failed to kill, is well alive this Day. the Gospel- driven Way: the human spirit's freedom, the risen life's freedom as Jesus lived this freedom!