What Does Easter Mean
To You?
What does Easter mean to
you?
is this just a thing we
do?
how is it Easter came to
be
the greatest day in
history?
a cross, a cave, and
three days’ time
changed the course of
humankind
a man who didn’t live for fame
or to start a religion in
his name
who came to heal the sick
and dying
to feed the hungry and
stop the fighting
until one day, the whole
world’s loss
they hung the healer on a
cross
what do we make of this
famous story?
the biggest fraud or the
greatest glory?
is it just a myth that
someone wrote
to give a generation
hope?
what makes us care about
the death
of one poor soul from
Nazareth?
he loved the ones who
hated him
this gentle soul from
Bethlehem
why should we follow
willingly
a carpenter from Galilee?
across the world he’s loved and hated
his true identity debated
~
Said this man from
Nazareth,
I’ll save you from your earthly
death
he faced the worst
reality
they nailed his body to a
tree
and took our sins so
willingly
upon himself, to set us
free
a mother sees her
lifeless son
he breathes no more, his
work is done
then darkness filled the
day and night
it seemed this man had
lost the fight
see them bring his body
down
and remove the bloodied,
thorny crown
transported to a tomb at
night
this figure bound in
linen white
his body placed into a
cave
a lonely, hopeless,
simple grave
a massive stone was
rolled to hide
the door that held the
man inside
then something happened
no one expected
human history redirected
even though we had no
clue
God always knew what he
would do
see three days’ time pass by and then
this dead man wakes and
walks again
the stone was rolled, a
tomb no more
Jesus alive as he was
before
early dawn, third day has
started
enter the women,
broken-hearted
the empty grave scares
them to death
where was the man from
Nazareth?
an angel of the Lord drew
near
and told the women “do not fear”
those chilling words
still in their ear:
“he isn’t
here.”
“he isn’t here.”
~
When Jesus died he took
with him
our hopeless fate, our crushing
sin
ascended up to heaven
bright
to sit with the Father,
to his right
to intercede for you and
me
so we in him are safe and
free
so fear no more of
earthly strife
of things that rob us of
this life
a truth that shakes us to
the core
death is dead and reigns
no more
I ask you now, what is
your view?
what does Easter mean
to you?
ask the drunkard, sober
now
ask the adulterer,
faithful now
ask the despairing,
hopeful now
ask the addict, healing
now
ask the sick who are
praising him
ask the hungry, fed by
him
ask the weak who are
strong in him
ask the prisoner, freed
by him
what Easter means to them
~
A king is reaching out to
you
as any loving king would
do
so asks this king from
Galilee,
if you won’t be mine, then whose will you
be?
the smallest faith
will set you free
take up your cross and
follow me
truth isn’t something you can kill
he loved you then, and
always will
faith is what we cannot
see
and faith has solved this
mystery
the man who died upon the
cross
knew no one else could rescue
us
he conquered death to
save his friends
Easter is a love story
that never ends
I was blind, but now I
see
he is risen, risen for
you and me.
