The Only Place for Emptiness at Easter
There should be nothing hollow about Easter; nothing that suggests things are not as they appear. There can be no Oz behind the curtain. No smoke and mirrors--even in the name of Christ. The Good News should never be all hat and no cattle as Texans say when someone is all show and no substance. Easter cannot be a gig, an act, a high cathedral chant or even humble preaching to the choir. Easter must proclaim the answer to the question Pontius Pilate asked while it stared him in the face:
“What is Truth?”
The only place for emptiness at Easter… is the tomb.
posted by .Tom Kapanka | 7:58 AM
3 Comments:
"There should be nothing hollow about Easter; nothing that suggests things are not as they appear." Semicolons connect equal grammatical units. The first clause here is an independent clause; the second is a dependent clause. See what I just did? Connected two independent clauses with a semicolon.
Your critique is correct. Thank you for adding more meaning to these Easter thoughts about hollowness.
Tom, I cannot add a thing to the comment about Anonymous's. That first comment shot thought out of me a moment, then I went back to read again.
Whether or not my faith is where yours is, it was one of the most moving passages about Easter I have read in a long while. The picture is perfectly in tune with your words.
Wait a moment; I must be sure my semicolon is well-placed.
or not.
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