Best Wishes For A Happy Easter, Watch Fred Astaire & Judy Garland Celebrate Parading Down Fifth Avenue - Also, Long Time Roosevelt Island Resident And Redeemer Presbyterian Church Founding Pastor Timothy Keller Talks About Faith In The Face Of Death And Promise He Says Easter Brings

Best wishes for a Happy Easter.

Judy Garland and Fred Astaire celebrate strolling down Fifth Avenue at the Easter Parade.
Also, long time Roosevelt Island resident and Founding Pastor of the Redeemer Presbyterian Church Timothy Keller discussed the meaning of Easter to him on the MSNBC program Morning Joe.

Gifted author and inspiring pastor @timkellernyc talks about his faith in the face of death and the promise that Easter brings. A moving discussion with @DavidAFrench @WillieGeist and @morningmika https://t.co/EWhr65XP9a

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 11, 2021

Not shown in the Morning Joe interview video is Timothy Keller talking about the comfort he finds looking out at the East River from his Roosevelt Island apartment.

'@timkellernyc, the hugely influential pastor, used to write books and counsel people about death. Then he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A stunning reflection on rediscovering faith from a man who has spent his life immersed in it:https://t.co/Tc2I91fdeT

— Emma Green (@emmaogreen) March 8, 2021

UPDATE 3/5 - Roosevelt island resident Matt Katz shares a Tim Keller story:

The Kellers were our across-the-hall neighbors when we moved to Roosevelt Island in 1989. We watched the kids grow up and our gregarious cat, Zeke, would wander into their apartment now and again. 

Years later, after moving out of the building, we met Tim on the Red bus and caught up with family news which included the information that we had acquired a new cat, a female, to keep old Zeke's bones warm and were looking for an appropriate name. Tim thought a moment and said, "First Kings, 1:3." He did not expand on that so we looked up the biblical reference upon returning home. 

It chronicled King David's old age when he brought a virgin into his service to keep his old bones warm, but "he knew her not." Her name was Abishag and Abishag the cat lived with us for many a year, keeping our bones, as well as Zeike's, warm.