Easter

Sending every good thought and all Easter blessings to you, if you have dropped by here - thank you for visiting this site!

I hope to goodness that this doesn't infringe copyright and, if it does, I'll remove it at once. It is one of the most beautiful pieces of literature I've ever read. Taken from Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" it captures the whole essence of Easter more than anything preached from pulpits, or anything that can be put into words. I missed out a great chunk of it and I thoroughly recommend the chapter: "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" for so beautiful an expression of awe and reality!!

"Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august Presence was very, very near. With difficulty he turned to look for his friend, and saw him at his side, cowed, stricken, and trembling violently. And still there was utter silence in the populous bird-haunted branches around them; and still the light grew and grew....
... "Rat!" he found breath to whisper, shaking. "Are you afraid?"
"Afraid?" murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. "Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet - and yet - O, Mole, I am afraid!"
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn."