By SUZANNE DOWNING
April 5, 2026 – Some readers will recall a famous line attributed to the rebel rocker Jim Morrison:
“No one here gets out alive.”
It’s the kind of phrase that makes us all stop for a moment, because it captures a stark truth about the human condition. Life is temporary on this planet. Death is certain. Every generation eventually passes the torch to the next.
But Easter is the day that challenges that assumption.
Christians around the world mark this Sunday as the day Jesus — Yeshua — rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. The truth at the center of Easter is both symbolic and historic. After a public torture and execution, after burial in a sealed tomb, He returned to life and walked out, ascended to Heaven. In doing so, he conquered death itself.
Someone did get out of here alive.
That changes the meaning of everything that came before and after it. The story of Easter is inseparable from the imperfection of humanity. The Christian understanding is not that people can earn perfection or somehow clean themselves up enough to deserve salvation. Quite the opposite. The message is that we are flawed, inconsistent, and often far from who we should be. We are not perfect.
Jesus was the only perfect one, and he willingly took on the weight of humanity’s sins, offering grace where none could be earned.
Easter morning is therefore not a solemn observance of loss, but a celebration of victory, and not just over death. It is the turning point where despair gives way to hope, where death no longer has the final word. For believers, the resurrection is about the promise that humanity’s brokenness is not the end of the story, and that redemption is possible even in a world that often feels defined by failure and strife.
That is why Easter has always been a joyful day. Churches fill with music, families gather, and the tone shifts from solemn remembrance of Good Friday to celebration. The message is one of renewal — that life can begin again, that forgiveness is real, and that hope is not misplaced.
Whether you approach Easter from deep faith, secret curiosity, or simply as a moment of reflection, the idea at its center remains powerful: Death is not the end, and grace is stronger than all of our shortcomings. Perfection was never the requirement.
And so, on this Easter Sunday, we pause to recognize the day that reminds us someone did get out alive, and that the story that started in a manger didn’t end at the tomb.
From those of us here at The Alaska Story, we wish you a joyful and hopeful Easter.
Happy Easter.
8 thoughts on “Easter Sunday: We celebrate the day someone did get out of here alive”
Praise be our Savior’s sweet and wonderful name.
The LORD Jesus is coming back. All the events and how we see people responding doesn’t have to be distressing when everything is not falling apart it’s all falling into place for the KING of kings. We in the Church have to pinch ourselves and remind ourselves remembering what’s been fortold about the very Last days. When Christ returns, this show that we are living its over!! the Finale began.
Remembering reality that our days are getting darker and we do look like we are the generations (boomers, GenX, GenY/Millennials, GenZ, and GenAlpha and GenBeta) are closer to His second return than to generations before us. We got to be keeping our eyes looking UP on the sky a little more than we look at government even though our works we do during living our lives We do our work to occupy the land while the Church is here. But the greater work is ARE we telling people about Jesus and discipling others so they transformed like us and they too can go out and telling other people about Jesus and what God did for them and what He can do for them. Because I know that Hell is not just for people who were Democrats, there are Republicans and Conservatives who been Republican their whole life who are in Hell because they refused to bow to Jesus during their lifespan and kept on living their life their way. And one doesn’t need to be an evil person as we know what evil is to be goin to Hell. You don’t have to be Old to go into Hell. There are people of all ages who are in Hell.
We have to remember reality as much as we would like government to be changed that it IS not such a BIG Headache. In the light of Christ at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter what Government we live under because Christ is our peace. Even if the government worsen got more tyrannical and viciously persecuted the Church we WILL still have peace and confidence because Christ lives inside every member of His Church.
The works we do while we live here matters, but the seeds and works we do to bring family members, neighbors, and friends, colleagues, to Heaven is the greater Work, their souls are the only work we can take with us to Heaven, and its the only Work that glorifies our Father in Heaven because only he can save us we never saved those around us we just did the east part planted seeds, told people about Jesus, and discipled others so they can reach others in their life.
This scripture reminds to keep our eyes looking upward when we see it feels like there are more people acting like a big meany, when they refusing to let the Gospel penetrate their hardened seared conscious when you meet more Grumps verses children of the Light on a day but to remember the world isn’t falling apart it’s falling into place. It’s exactly how God told us. Not to distress us but to give us Hope because His Son is about to return again and this old way of death is about to be put behind us and Heaven is before us just around the corner. So we got to keep looking to these East Chugach Mountains for a Light that will one day be brighter than a sunrise that came over them.
1 Timothy 3:1-5
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.“
“ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
“ You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
So just as our Brother in Christ Charlie Kirk would tell his crowd “ go make Heaven Crowded” go tell the people in your life about Jesus, start a bible reading group, go make disciples.
That’s the greater work we could ever participate in is to make Heaven crowded helping get as many people to Heaven while we still have our breaths and hadn’t reached our finish lines.
He has risen!!!! Praise God!!!!
Indeed, He is risen!
He has risen indeed, and died for all of us while we were yet sinners.
Thanks for all of your positive, uplifting stories over the years, Suzanne. Compared to other so-called journalists and writers, you stand shoulders and head above them. The nonsense, negativity and foulness of Democrat writers is easy to pass over and forget. They are stuck on the trenches. You have risen above them!