Happy Easter

Many years ago I was in a sunday school class. I do not remember which one or how old I was, but the teacher giving the lesson gave each person this story. Since that class I have read this story often and it is always such a great reminder of the savior's love to us. The story was in the May Ensign 1992 and it was by Marion D. Hanks. Many of you may have heard it, but here it is anyways.

As Easter time approaches, let me share with you the tender story of an eleven-year old boy named Philip, a Down's Syndrome child who was in a Sunday School class with eight other children. Easter Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They were instructed to go out of the church building onto the grounds and put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of Easter. All returned joyfully. As each egg was opened there were exclamations of delight at a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Philip's, and it was empty! Some of the children made fun of Philip. "But, teacher," he said, "Teacher, the tomb was empty." A newspaper article announcing Philip's death a few months later noted that at the conclusion of the funeral eight children marched forward and put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said. "The tomb was empty."

During this special Easter season, let us not forget the empty tomb and all that it means to us and our eternal salvation. Happy Easter everyone!

P.S. I recently changed my blog title from "life as newly weds" to what it is now. If you want to know where I got my inspiration behind it click here. It is from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk during the General Young Women's meeting last weekend. A teacher at the Elementary School that I am working at told me about it and so I read it. It is amazing! And so cute about how he talks about how he and his wife met.