Spring and Easter celebrate the way life breaks through: chicks break out of eggs, plants break forth from the ground, leaves and flowers burst forth from buds, and, for us Christians, Jesus rises from the tomb.

On Easter morning, Christians worldwide celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, the high point of our Christian faith. While many of the symbols of Easter have their origins in pre-Christian celebrations, they all are reminders of the awakening of springtime after the seeming deadness of winter and seem appropriate symbols for celebrating the Resurrection and the…