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Article: Ready or not.(Living by the Word)(Holy Saturday)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 8, 2005
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Sunday, March 20 Matthew 27:55-61
I ONCE LIVED in a village in Germany that lay at the foot of a mountain covered in deep forest. A narrow farm separated the houses from the forest, and a cemetery occupied a piece of land part way up the mountain.
Sometimes on my daily walks I stopped at the cemetery. It was the busiest place in town. The Steep slope never deterred the widows who busied themselves there in a kind of competitive grave-keeping. Their plantings changed with the seasons: early primroses and pansies, spring bulbs, summer annuals, fall displays of berries and chrysanthemums, winter pots crammed with pine branches and the well-placed artificial ...