Another Easter Reflection....

Some of you may have heard of this –

At the time of the Battle of Waterloo there was a man at a signalling post in Winchester Cathedral anxiously
awaiting the signal as to whether or not we had won the war.  As the lighted signal began to shine, a fog came down. The watchman read the signal which said, “England defeated”.  He signalled this news to other watchmen. This message spread along the countryside, and Britain began to despair of this news.  Then the fog lifted, and the
watchman discovered the true signal said, “England defeated the enemy”.  The despair, like the fog, lifted because England had won!

On Good Friday it seemed the message was "Christ defeated".  But three days later the fog lifts and we discover that the message had not been received in full.  The resurrection reverses what we initially thought and declares "Christ defeated the enemy”.

An Easter Reflection...

Some time ago I heard a story.  One of those stories that you can’t easily verify, but know that it’s worth remembering -

A young boy named Jonathan, who had quite severe learning difficulties,
loved going to Sunday School and listening to the passages and the hymns we know so well. Unfortunately, although the other children didn’t mock him, neither did they include him in many of the activities.

One week before Easter, the assistant gave all of the children plastic eggs and asked them to go home and fill the eggs with something that represented Easter. The next week all of the children gave their eggs and the assistant opened them one by one and they talked about how each thing
represented Easter. One had a flower petal, another had a leaf and so on - all representing spring and new life.

The assistant then came to an empty egg. Assuming it was Jonathan’s, she put it aside thinking he must not have understood what she asked him to do. Jonathan became a little agitated and asked. “Why won’t you talk about my egg?” She said, “But Jonathan, your
egg is empty.” To which he replied, “So was the tomb”.

Jonathan became accepted by all the other children that day.