No more consolation
Just celebration
He is ALIVE
My son is ALIVE
My friend is ALIVE
My rabbi is ALIVE

Disbelief gives way to cautious optimism
gives way to hopeful questioning
gives way to reality and adulation

He is ALIVE
And all he said
And all he’d done
Now resonates
with resurrection power

(I took the photo above in November 2022 at The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, Israel.)