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Since I won’t be around much this weekend, just wanted to say Happy Easter to every one! We got a little basket today and some used children’s Easter books at Powell’s, along with some stickers. Lil’ E has been asking for things he wants in his easter basket. They include: a pear, a kiwi, an apple, a strawberry, and a yogurt.  LOL Happy to oblige!

But of course, Easter has very little to do with a big white bunny who wears a tie and drops off baskets full of toys and chocolate to good little American children. I’m trying to be a tad more aware of the Resurrection this year, and grateful for the miracle of it all. The grave is empty! It’s so beyond me, I tell ya. Where does one even begin to grasp something like that? If you’ve ever had the opportunity to go to some of the ruins where Jesus once walked, perhaps you felt some connection to this 2,000 year old narrative. I myself can recall the far more commercial and backwards “theme park” in Orlando, FL called “The Holy Land”! Yes sir, you can see the empty tomb and later eat some “Honey and Milk” ice cream. Kinda strange, if you ask me. However, being in the simulated Jerusalem, you could almost try to displace yourself to that time period and replay the good ol’ Sunday school stories in your head, this time not as a reader of a book, but maybe as a fisherman, a Samaritan, a woman at the well, a blind man, a bystander on Calvary hill, or a Pharisee at the temple. You know what I mean?

I can only imagine how it might have been, how I might have reacted, to news of that Hebrew carpenter-turned-prophet whose tomb is now empty. Knowing my cynicism, I think I might have flipped the page in the newspaper without so much as reading passed the headline of that story. “Hmmm, ‘Eyewitness accounts say Jesus, a man executed on the cross just three days ago, now has an emtpy tomb…. Reports of angel spotting just in….’ Yeeeeeeeah- I wonder how the Obama v. Clinton thing is going!? *flip, flip, flip*”

Well, there is probably no end to this rabbit trail in sight, (not uncommon, as those of you who have known me longer than 30 minutes have already noticed!). So I’ll just close by saying that this has been fun, let’s do this again sometime, and may you have a very happy Easter celebration!

Oh yes, and I thought this video was cute… it has chickens and bunnies in it, so it indirectly relates to Easter. This one has a farting rabbit and since small things amuse me, esp things that sound like farts, I’ve been laughing at it for days.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Faith 'Flections, Holidays