A short story.....

.....for the Easter season -

A young boy named Jonathan, who had quite severe learning difficulties, loved going to Sunday School and listening to the passages and the hymns that many 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 Sunday school 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 to the assistant, who opened them one by one and they talked about how each thing represented Easter. One had a flower petal, another had a picture of a new born lamb 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.