EASTER

Last April on a Sunday we took one of our “nowhere” drives. My husband was quietly driving a back road. I was occupied in the front passenger seat watching the scenery. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that my husband was straining to look out of my window. This startled me, since his eyes should have been on the road in front of him. I asked him what he was looking at and he quietly replied, “Nothing.” His eyes went back to the road in front of him. After a few minutes, I looked at my husband again and noticed a tear. I asked him what was wrong. This time he told me, “I was just thinking about Pop and a story he had once told me.” Because it had to do with his Dad I wanted to know the story, and so I asked him to share it with me. He said, “When I was about 8 years old, Pop and I were out fishing and that is when he told me that the pine-trees know when it is Easter.” I had no idea what he meant by that, so I pressed him for more information. He continued, “The pine-trees start their new growth period during the weeks before Easter. If you look at the tops of the pine-trees two weeks before Easter, you will see the yellow shoots. As the days get closer to Easter Sunday, the tallest shoot will branch off and form a cross. By the time Easter Sunday comes around, you will see that most of the pine-trees will have small yellow crosses on all of the tallest shoots.” I turned to look out the window and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was a week before Easter, and you could see all of the trees with the tall yellow shoots stretching to Heaven. The tallest ones shone in the sunlight like rows of tiny golden crosses! JESUS IS LORD!