Easter Message 2021

At this time last year, it must have felt like we’d never get past the pain and sorrow associated with Good Friday, and go on to the joy of Easter, at least not in our everyday lives. When we think of Good Friday, we think of Jesus’ scourging, his pain, and suffering on the cross. We think of the immense grief his mother and followers must have felt. Many of us were going through our own pain, bearing our own crosses. After a Good Friday year, we can, at last, celebrate an Easter year, a year of rebirth and renewal. We slowly return to normal, just as the world slowly returns to life in the spring. How this relates to everyone: We are in a cycle of renewal and rebirth when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis We started in the autumn of normalcy, then we entered the dark season that marked the death of normalcy and freedom. We are now entering into the spring, where freedom and normalcy are slowly coming back to life, thanks mainly to the vaccines, and of course, the return of nice weather in the Northern Hemisphere. In America and in other countries by the end of the actual spring, there could be enough vaccine availability that anyone who wants to be, will be fully vaccinated. At that point- Who would we be maintaining the restrictions and mask mandates for? The summer will come. In many countries, COVID deaths plummeted in August 2020. This year, with the vaccines, we could be racking up “goose eggs” in some states and countries-- days, maybe even weeks without a single death. Be cautioned! When it comes to the chronic, existential crisis of keeping America a Constitutional Republic, we are in the autumn. With faith in ourselves and the Creator, this too shall pass. Christians and Jews have endured much greater tyranny than what some of our current political leaders have in mind for us. Some of it, very recently. Keep the faith, spread the Word, and endure. Even the non-religious should beware, religious freedom is low-hanging fruit for those engaged in tyranny. All that we consider “natural rights”, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness; the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments are in danger.