It's tough finding Easter cards today that celebrate the real
reason for this, the most important holiday on the Christian calendar.
The few available are segued off to the side of the display and even
those cards in the tiny section labeled "religious" contain watered
down postmodernist sentiments void of such key words as
"Christ" and "risen." Leaves a person wondering how
they got labeled "religious." Seems as though in the past few
years we've backslid a couple of millennia to celebrating a pagan rite of
Spring rather than praising a Risen Lord. But in this age where we've
lost our moral compass, where even historic references to the Julian calendar,
B.C. and A.D., have been stripped of their christological orientation--now
B.C.E. (Before the Common Area) and C.E. (Common Era), scripture references
have been stripped from the scopes of the soldier's rifle, and marriage has
lost its sacredness,
Dayspring, the big publisher of religious cards in the Christian
bookstores, was recently bought out by Hallmark, and all of their cards are now
printed in China! At least Cleveland's own American Greetings are still
printed in the USA. Guess I'll be making my own, however--at $5 each, I'd
rather donate the $25 I'd spend on 5 cards to the City Mission as a way of
honoring the paschal mystery.
