The world begins anew, and we celebrate. Yet nestled among new clothes and egg hunts, whispering through the hymns we sing only once a year, we sense secrets of this season of renewal, of resurrection. And we seek the answers. Maybe we find a few. More, though, remain mysteries.
Some questions have no earthly answers.
I don't know how Gary hung on. Nor can anybody explain how a person postpones death until the birth of a grandchild, or a graduation, or the new millennium. He found that, before Passover, death rates of Jews significantly decline. Afterward, they rise. He found the same results among Chinese people before and after significant Chinese holidays.