Fifth Sunday of Easter

When I removed the backing, to my great surprise, I found another portrait. Behind the image of the soldier…was the image of a child —perhaps my grandfather as a boy. Behind the warrior… there was a child. That discovery has stayed with me. Because in many ways, it reveals a truth we often forget: beneath all our strength, above all our accomplishments, and beyond all the roles we grow into—there remains something essential about being a child.