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To believe in the resurrection of the dead is to believe that in God's good time we will be raised body and soul for life in a new heaven and a new earth. Heaven for now is but where we wait. It's what so many of us have been praying for Sunday aer Sunday, year aer year: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. To believe in Easter, to look forward to resurrection, is to believe in heaven on earth where all that we have done in faith, hope and love will not disappear but be swept up into a future we can only call the kingdom of God. It is because of Easter that we should savor creation, create beauty, do justice and practice faith, for these are the gis and works of our hands which God, along with our very selves, will raise up from the dust of the earth to an eternal life. Imagine the day on which you were your best self, did your best work, did it in great faith and amidst great beauty. 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