The truth that Christ is risen means that there is hope for the sinner, and so hope for each of us. To the truth that Christ is risen means that there is freedom for the captives, healing for the wounded, life for the dying, and light for the world. Friends, may we whom God has summoned here on this Easter morning run like Peter, like the beloved disciple, like Mary Magdalene, to a hurting, broken world, to all those we meet and proclaim. By our lives and by our words. Not with vague, naive optimism, but with fierce burning conviction of what we have seen and believed. That Christ is risen indeed! He is truly risen as he promised. Alleluia! Alleluia!