Wait Three Days!

In a cartoon called “The Family Circus,” two children have discovered their Easter baskets and are busily enjoying the contents. One of the children asks, “Who colored the eggs?” The other child replies, “The Easter Bunny.”

“Who gave us the jelly beans?”
“The Easter Bunny.”
“And the chocolate rabbit?”
“The Easter Bunny.”

Clearly, for those two little ones, nothing was impossible for the Easter Bunny. Then the family went to Church. They heard the preacher say, “They came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled back. Who could have done this?” To which the two children cried out in unison, “The Easter Bunny!”

There once appeared a magazine cartoon in which a preacher is at his desk preparing a sermon for the coming Sunday. With a look of pride and satisfaction on his face, he is saying to himself, “No matter how hard I try to put fire and brimstone into my sermons, they always come out brimming…