He's Alive!

Let us not mock God with metaphor,


analogy, sidestepping transcendence;

making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the

faded credulity of earlier ages:

let us walk through the door.



(from "Seven Stanzas at Easter" by John Updike. Drawing is "The Re-Creation of Man" from Michael McFerrin. See http://michael-mcferrin.artistwebsites.com/)