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SURPRISE!
Who would have thought that an Easter card could make one chuckle?
Who would have thought that a little girl's drawing could send one spinning into theological reflection?
I have never thought "outside the box", so to speak, on images and symbols used at Easter.
Chicks, lambs, bunnies, flowers, crosses, chocolate, open tombs, caterpillar/butterflies, Easter trees made from forsythia branches, eggs...but an Easter horse.
The Easter horse is just a horse but because of the place and time it is presented it is a surprise, a pregnant pause as one's brain tries to make a connection. My brain has not made a connection -yet- maybe never; perhaps this is the beauty of the quirky creature.
As a Christian I live in the now and the not yet, knowing and unknowing; in a quirky kind of hope that sees God somehow in a red Easter horse. I can feel the hope, the intrigue, the possibility of exploring an understanding...I'm exicted. Please don't ask me to explain for I can not put it into words. Let me just imagine myself on the horse taking me to wherever resurrection wishes to lead.
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