April Fool’s Day Easter Sunday

“We are fools for Christ”

Fathers help their children roll Easter eggs along the ground;

The Father of Jesus rolled away the stone and raised his dead son from the ground of the tomb.

Easter eggs come in many colors;

Easter eggs are hardboiled;

When life around us is hardboiled the love of Easter Jesus can be soft and cuddly.

Easter egg shells crack and then we throw them away as imperfect and not pretty enough;

Easter Jesus embraces our cracks and considers everybody pretty enough to be loved and share in his new risen life.

Easter eggs get mixed and mashed into egg salad for a nourishing mid-day meal;

Easter Jesus nourishes us in the transformation of bread and wine in the meal of the Eucharist.

Easter eggs are sometimes in plain sight with only a little camouflage.

Easter Jesus is sometimes right in front of us; we just need to pause and open our eyes;

Easter eggs sometimes are hidden and we have to hunt hard to find them.

Easter Jesus sometimes is hidden in out of the way places and strange people; we have to look hard to find him – but it’s worth the hunt!

This is personal: I don’t like hardboiled eggs.

Like a Lump
Easter eggs just lay there; don’t do anything, unless we do something to and with them.
- Easter Jesus, risen from the dead, doesn’t wait for us. He searches us out – even when we just lay there and don’t do much.
Shape
Easter eggs are pretty much all the same shape.
- Easter Jesus comes to us with love and new life customized for our own individual shapes and sizes.
Real
Easter eggs sometimes show up as imposters in tacky plastic – ich!
- Easter Jesus is never tacky or plastic. He’s the real thing, every day, until forever. Alleluia!