Losing can hurt.  We want to be winners – on the field or court, or with our families, or careers, or health, or life – to win at them all.  But too often we stumble and eventually we lose life itself.  Today Easter provides the answer to all of life’s losses.  Today we see the agony of defeat turned to the thrill of victory.  Jesus died to pay for all our failures, and he rose again from the dead to guarantee victory. That’s Easter – VICTORIOUS!   Christ is risen – just as he said!