Easter is coming.

Somebody in the comments pointed out that this could be seen as putting words in people's mouths, but I just want to say that knowing the writer of this (and the narrator!) that I'm sure that was not the intent. I see the 'forward' reading as a rendition of the way it seems our reality is: futile and hopeless, and the reversal to be the gospel which "is foolishness to those who are perishing." Blessed holy week!