Why Not You?

On a day like today (just two weeks before Easter), a Sunday School teacher queried her seven-year-old students on their understanding of the great Resurrection Event. “What does Easter mean to you?” she asked. One youngster answered, “Easter means egg-salad sandwiches for the next two weeks.”A bad answer, but a good question: “What does Easter mean to you?”If there never had been an Easter …What would the world be like todaywith no eternal goal?What would the temporal body bewithout a living soul?What would give us courageto push on when hope is dead?Accept the Easter Messageand the words our Father said:“In love I send My only Sonto live and die for you,And through His Resurrectionyou will gain a new life too!”Once upon a time, as autumn began, a man sawed off a fig tree branch and laid it down at the foot of the tree. Weeks later, he returned to the scene and found that all the leaves had fallen off the tree. However, the leaves…