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Easter, 2009 (courtesy post)

e01_18603443Slovenian artist Franc Grom drills a hole in an empty egg shell in Vrhnika, Slovenia on April 9, 2009. Grom drills thousands of holes into egg shells to create unique eggs of fragile beauty. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

e02_18603495Slovenian artist Franc Grom displays his drilled eggs in Vrhnika, Slovenia April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

e03_18636545The Scituate Clergy Association organized an service at the lighthouse at sunrise in Scituate, MA on Sunday, April 12, 2009. After the service, the sun shined down above the horizon. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)

e04_18623625A man and child receive a hot meal during the annual Good Friday event at the Los Angeles Mission on Good Friday, April 10, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Nurses and Volunteers provided baskets and toys to homeless children, including some 3,000 hot meals, 2,000 pairs of shoes and podiatric care for the homeless of Central City East in Los Angeles. (David McNew/Getty Images)

e05_18637971Traditionally hand painted eggs for are displayed for sale during a Palm Sunday fair at the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania on April 12, 2009. Romania’s Orthodox majority celebrates a week after the Catholics. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)

e06_18635909Men of the German Slav minority Sorbs, dressed in traditional clothes, ride horses during a ceremonial parade near the village of Ralbitz, Germany, northeast of Dresden on April 12, 2009. More than 1,000 riders took part in several parades to preach the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday. (REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski)

e07_18631377People stand around an bonfire, an old German ethnic custom, in Elbingerode, Germany, on Saturday, April 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Frank Drechsler)

e08_18637423Youths stand next to the debris of an bonfire in the northern German village of Worpswede near Bremen on April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Christian Charisius)

e09_18642661Randy Fox, left, Pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Skid Row baptizes Sammy Butler during Sunday services in the alley of Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission as the congregation cheer on Sunday April 12, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/The Los Angeles Times, Lawrence K. Ho)

e10_18633107Children race for eggs during an egg hunt on the grounds of Doris Miller Recreation Center in East Austin, Texas, Saturday, April 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Larry Kolvoord)

e11_18632399South Korean Christians pray during an annual Mass in front of the Seoul City Hall, South Korea, Sunday morning, April 12, 2009. About 20,000 Christian devotees wished peace and early reunification of the divided Koreas. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

e12_18641309 was still observed in earthquake-torn central Italy - members of the fraternal order of St. Maria of Loreto run across the square of Sulmona as they carry the statue of Madonna che Scappa, or The Madonna Who Runs in the Square, during a Sunday ceremony in L’Aquila, Italy on April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

e13_18635303In L’Aquila, Italy, a woman cuts a chocolate egg during a distribution in a tent city set up for people evacuated from their homes following the April 6 earthquake, on Sunday, April 12, 2009. (VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)

e14_18641209A dog sits in the place where his owner died in an earthquake in Saint Gregorio village near L’Aquila on Sunday, April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

e15_18635771U.S. army soldiers sing hymns during sunrise service in Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 12, 2009. About 100 U.S. troops attended an sunrise service on Sunday at the U.S. military base Camp Liberty just outside the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

e16_18635637Iraqi Christians pray during Mass in a church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 12, 2009. Iraq’s dwindling Christian community celebrated services Sunday, taking advantage of the improved security in Baghdad and other parts of the country.

e17_18595385An employee of the Ehlego Landkost GmbH company checks colored eggs on April 8, 2009 at the company’s plant in Neuhausen/Spree, eastern Germany. In the weeks before , almost 120,000 eggs were colored per day at the plant. (MICHAEL URBAN/AFP/Getty Images)

e18_18639529Bebe Steel and her dog Miss Otis stand in their finery along Fifth Avenue during the annual Parade April 12, 2009 in New York City. The parade is a New York tradition dating back to the mid-1800s when the social elite would parade their new fashions down Fifth Avenue after attending services in one of the Fifth Avenue churches. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

e19_18635997Pakistani Christian girls wait to receive communion during the mass at a catholic church in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, April 12, 2009. Pakistani Christians account for about 3.8 million of Pakistan’s 140 million people.

e20_18603763A bucket of water is thrown onto a woman of the Paloc minority, dressed in her traditional clothing, in Holloko, 100 km north-east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 9, 2009, during a rehearsal performance of a typical Hungarian tradition where men pour water on women. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

e21_18607289Albane Sharrard places chocolate rabbits on a tray after removing them from a mold at Jacques Torres Chocolate in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)

e22_18637047Catholic pilgrims and clergymen hold candles as they walk in procession around the tomb traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, during the mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Sunday, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

e23_18632041Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the vigil mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, on April 11, 2009. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

e24_18621287Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Police Chief Victor Amato holds a pet rabbit named Hope Friday, April 10, 2009, in Marlboro, N.J., that had been abandoned in the woods behind the owner’s home. The family got the rabbit last . Hope is regaining its health. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

e25_18609389Workers pour melted chocolate into a mold for a giant egg at the production line of a chocolate factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 9, 2009. Of the four 165 kg (364 lb) eggs, that were 1.2m (4 ft) tall, and contain 3,705 small chocolate candies each, two were donated and the other two were sold at 14.743 thousand reais (aproximately $6,700 US). (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)

e26_18641737Alexa Heichelheim, 17, is baptized by Pastor Kelley Vaughan during a Seaside Baptist Church Sunrise service on the beach on Sunday April 12, 2009 in Jamaica Beach, Texas. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)

e27_18635397Christian nuns pray during a midnight prayer service at the Our Lady Of Charity Church on April 11, 2009 in the village of Raikia, India. Christians gathered to pray under threat of continued secular violence in the Kandhamal area. Violence by Hindu extremists towards Christian minorities in the state has seen hundreds killed, over a thousand homes and scores of churches destoyed over the last several months. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

e28_18634935A child looks around while Chinese Catholics participate in an mass at the Nantang church in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

e29_18635381People from a choir group sing during a sunrise prayer by Dhaka Pastors Fellowship on Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Andrew Biraj)

e30_18607749A polar bear bites a mock Bunny stuffed with food at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina on April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian)

e31_18637929A crowd gathers on the slope of the Lizard Butte just outside Caldwell, Idaho on Sunday, April 12, 2009. For 72-years crowds have been gathering at this spot on this rocky hillside to celebrate the . (AP Photo/The Idaho Press-Tribune, Charlie Litchfield)

e32_18632369Bulgarian Catholic women hold candles during the vigil mass in the Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel in the town of Rakovski, Bulgaria on April 11, 2009. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)

e33_18639829A Christian girl lights a candle as others pray to a shrine of Mother Mary during a midnight prayer service at the Our Lady Of Charity Church on April 11, 2009 in the village of Raikia, India. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

e34_18635423Catholic worshippers hold candles during the mass at a church in Xiaohan village of Tianjin municipality, China on April 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Vincent Du)

e35_18636537Mehmet Cerezcioglu of Scituate, Massachusetts, listens during a sunrise service at the Scituate Lighthouse, organized by the Scituate Clergy Association on April 12, 2009. Cerezcioglu, who is orginally from Turkey, spends half the year in Scituate and the other half in Istanbul. “I’m not a Christian, but I love Jesus, I love Buddha,” said Cerezcioglu, and said he woke up this morning on minimal sleep and made his way out to the service. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)

I’m not a Christian, at least not as of now. Therefore, is not one of the holidays I would celebrate. However, these pictures simply stunned me. I cannot help but to grab all of them and post them here. Please realize that none of these out-of-the-world pictures are taken by me. I do not have the necessary equipments; and most important of all, I do not have the necessary skill. The original post can be found here.

4 Responses to “Easter, 2009 (courtesy post)”

  1. Janice Thompson says:

    Bill, I was looking through your blog today and was reminded how touched I was when I first saw your post about Easter. I also couldn’t forget your statement that the pictures “stunned you.” I am hopeful that one day you can feel the joys of Christmas and Easter for yourself. I’m sure there is a campus minister at Davidson that would be happy to talk with you if you feel inclined to do so. You know that I am always interested in you and your wellbeing. Take care.
    Mrs. Thompson

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