Is Easter a Fairy Tale?

     Is Easter a fairy tale?
     All that stuff about angels and a death and resurrection?
     Consider this: J.R.R. Tolkien, who gave us The Lord of the Rings, says that fairy tales enable us to escape time and death, commune with nonhuman beings, find perfect love, and triumph over evil. That’s what makes them so popular.
​     Author Tim Keller says these elements satisfy “the deepest desires of the human heart.” They are “a memory trace of the garden of Eden” because “deep in your heart, you know that’s how people are supposed to live.”
     But we can’t live that way, right?
     Yes, we can, Keller says. The essence of Easter is that because Jesus Christ came back from the dead, those who believe in him “will experience these things.”
     We’ll escape time and death through eternal life, he says. We’ll interface with the work of angelic beings here on Earth. We’ll live in God’s perfect love. And we’ll experience the triumph of good over evil.
     This shakes me up because too often I forget that Christianity is actually a journey with the Supernatural as adventurous as that taken by the Fellowship of the Ring.
     So I’m joining the hobbits with a toast to this pilgrimage - Easter is the most fantastic fairy tale because it is true.