All I Need to Learn about Life . . .

All I Need to Learn about Life I learned from the Easter Bunny!

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Walk softly and carry a big carrot.

Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.

There's no such thing as too much candy.

All work and no play can make you a basket case.

A cute little tail attracts a lot of attention.

Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.

Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.

Some body parts should be floppy.

Keep you paws off other people's jellybeans.

Good things come in small-sugarcoated packages.

The grass is greener in someone else's basket.

An Easter bonnet can tame even the wildest hare.

To show your true colors you have to come out of the shell.

The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.

~Author Unknown~

Speculation On The Subject Of Barabbas

What became of Barabbas? I ask but no one knows
Let off his chain he went in the brightly lit street
he could turn to the right go straight turn to the left
spin around in a circle crow cheerfully as a rooster
He the Emperor of his own head and hands
He the Governor of his own breath

I ask because in a sense I took part in the whole thing
Swayed by the crowd in front of Pilate's palace I cried
along with all the others free Barabbas free Barabbas
Everyone was shouting and if I alone has been silent
it would all have happened as it was ment to happen

So perhaps Barabbas went back to his gang of thieves
In the mountains he kills swiftly and plunders deftly
Or maybe he set up a pottery workshop
and now cleans his crime-stained hands
in the clay of creation
He's a water carrier a mule driver a moneylender
a shipowner -- a ship of his carried Paul to Corinth
or -- the possibility cannot be excluded --
he became a valued spy in Roman pay

Behold the marvel at the vertiginous play of fate
with possibilities power and smiles of fortune

By the Nazarene
was left alone
without alternative
with a steep
pathway
of blood

Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert (t 1998) was a spiritual leader of the anti-communist movement in Poland.

From Magnificat, Holy Week 2008, Vol. 10, No. 1