Last night we celebrated Holy Saturday.  This celebration overshadowed the events of April 4, 1968 The Blessed Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination. TIME magazine declared it, “both a symbol and a symptom of the nation’s racial malaise.”

On Easter weekend, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a Birmingham jail and composed his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html).

“We find ourselves in the thesis of Palm Sunday, and then we move over into the antithesis of Good Friday But Jesus Christ, with all of his beauty and all of his eloquence, rings out across the centuries and says, “There is a synthesis in Easter” And this means that life is meaningful, that life is not doomed to frustration and futility but life can end up in fulfillment in the life and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” Martin Luther King Easter Sunday 1957.

I think Easter Sunday is a great time to remember and celebrate Martin Luther King. It gives us a chance to encounter a person we all respect, a person who takes Easter ultimately seriously and really believes in it, believes in the power of a living God to have the ultimate say over history. Martin Luther King says to us on Easter Sunday don't look for Jesus in the tomb because God doesn't want him there. And I think he is a person of such audacious faith that he would also say to us: "I lived my life too as much as I could as a child of God so don't look for me in the tomb, either."