After days of waiting, they woke on Easter Morning, noticed the stone had moved and knew that in the night a joyous change had occured.
No, not John 20:1 telling the story of Mary Magdalene visiting the sepulchre to see it empty at Easter time, but the story of our children waking and noticing that the Easter Bunny had hidden some chocolate under the rocks in the garden.
On a day when many children will be having chocolate for breakfast, I think we will all need a helping of faith to see us through the day with hyper active toddlers running on chocolate power. The duracell rabbit (we have the genuine article, don't ask!) has nothing on chocotoddler.
Is Easter with its chocolate eggs and Easter Rabbit an analogy of Christmas with its presents and Santa Claus?
It isn't just about the commercialism, but what do chocolate eggs and Santa Claus have to do with the bible anyway?
Since Christianity has dressed up many pagan rituals to make them acceptable, how should we dress up Hallowe'en with presents and a happy figure to allow it to be discussed in schools?
Food for thought. Mine's the fourth egg on the right.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
It has always surprised me that in the US, where holidays are valued and children get about 6 weeks more annual holiday than the UK, that ad...
-
Dyson's motto is "100% suction all the time" or "The vacuum that doesn't lose suction". The consumers' assoc...
-
Why I won't be supporting England in the World Cup It's the sign of a nation that never really grows up that every 4 years we have t...
-
I am growing increasingly tired of paying increasingly high "credit card surcharges" which are little more than a front for certai...
-
An article on how Agile can sit alongside PRINCE2 and where DSDM Atern fits in. In 2007, I put "used an Agile/PRINCE2 development str...
-
I've been having a busy time over on the Cambrian House site lately. Check out my profile and the full set of awards I completed last ...
-
My article about Dyson's breakdown problems made the front page of reddit and hopefully this article on Bosch will do so too because m...
-
I thought I would write this to document the ongoing problems I have with my Nokia N97. It seems from the conversation in the phone shop tod...
-
Every time I go to the post office there's a queue. No matter how much they try and keep the queue length down, inevitably you get stuck...
-
Having been bothered by a cough for the last few days and been singularly unimpressed with the variety of medicines on offer, I decided to t...
No comments:
Post a Comment