Empty Egg
Six year old Jamison sauntered up to my desk clutching a plastic carton of fillable Easter eggs. As she proudly placed them on my desk, I realized what they were--resurrection eggs. Her teacher at school had provided them with instructions and materials so that each child would be able to take the set home and tell others the story. She carefully opened each egg, recounting the story of Palm Sunday and Good Friday by telling me that the palm frond was what people laid on the ground when they shouted Hosanna; the thorns from the rose bush represented the crown of thorns placed on Jesus' head; the gauze represented the cloths that Jesus was wrapped in for burial and so on. When she got to the egg numbered 12 she opened it with anticipation, almost throwing it open and announced that it was empty as if she was surprised. But Jamison excitedly proclaimed that it represented the empty tomb...that Jesus wasn't there. To Christians around the world that simple stat...