If you’re looking for some good old-fashioned politician bashing, look somewhere else.

As you read this column, you won’t find any comments about how ridiculously ignorant Joe Supervisor is for not doing something your average fifth grader would know to do.

And you won’t find any common sense wisdom thrust at the city aldermen in hopes of preventing another argument over something that most taxpayers would agree is unimportant.

Today you’ll find no commentary on the economic development authority’s future.

No fussing about county officials who don’t read the laws before they act.

No criticism of people who show rude, even vulgar, behavior in public.

No cute stories about how a small furry female tortures and delights me with her canine curiosity.

Nope.

You’ll find none of that this morning.

You see, the thing is, none of that really matters.

“Wait a minute,” you might say. “Each Sunday you fuss and fume and poke fun at all sorts of things and now you say none of it matters!”

That’s right.

We’d all like to think that the things we do, say and write help a little here and there.

But the bottom line is that none of that really matters in the grand — and I mean GRAND — scheme of things.

This past week, our newspaper held a small reception for the 2009 Citizen of the Year and the Unsung Heroes, which were originally announced in late February.

These receptions are always interesting. Almost without exception the people who are nominated don’t think they’ve done anything special to deserve the recognition.

Many are even slightly embarrassed by the honor.

One by one, as they were presented a small award, they said thanks to the group and each spoke of the others who deserve the true thanks: friends, family and, most important of all, God.

One said something to the effect that, “without Him nothing is possible.”

Another spoke of how blessed a life he’d lived.

It’s refreshing that in a world often filled with disagreements and dysfunction, so many of us share a common bond — the realization that none of our worldly problems matter all that much.

While we may like to think we’re in charge of our lives, we’re only fooling ourselves.

One day all of our money and other material things won’t mean a hill of beans.

Nothing we do, think, say or write is possible without God.

In fact, none of us would be here without God and, for Christians, his son Jesus Christ.

Today, somewhere between the chocolate bunnies and the pastel-colored eggs, are two things that changed the world forever — a rugged cross and an empty cave.

It was on the cross that the world’s savior was crucified. And on the third day, the cave-like tomb was found empty.

And in those three days, the miracle of Christianity is born. Nothing else before Christ’s death and resurrection really matters much and nothing except that matters much after.

So, like I said, none of the Natchez politics, news and gossip really matters.

The fact that He died for us, was resurrected and lives today, that’s what truly matters.

Have a blessed Easter and please spend a few minutes today remembering the real reason for the holiday.

Kevin Cooper is publisher of The Natchez Democrat. He can be reached at 601-445-3539 or kevin.cooper@natchezdemocrat.com.