Signs of Easter

There's a sign, now lying on the ground (through no fault of mine,) that, for the last few weeks or so, I drive past every morning on my way to work. When I first noticed it, I figured it had something to do with somebody running for office - so I ignored it. When I drove past it a few days ago, I caught a glimpse of what it said - or at least I thought I did. By the time I got to work, I figured that I must have read it wrong.

When I passed the sign again the following day, I drove a little slower. Turns out I had read it right the first time...

As you can also see, there's website listed at the bottom of the sign. I went to this site, not because I had any interest in attending, but because I wanted to know if this was for real or not.

Going to the website, I immediately ran into a problem. The problem was that, along with learning that this is an event sponsored by a church (no surprise there,) I was immediately met with a video. The video started with a close up shot of a very happy, very enthusiastic young lady, and since I don’t mix well with those kinds of people, I only watched about three seconds of the video before shutting it off.

Rather than watch the rest of the video, I decided that, much like Easter itself, some things are best left to my imagination.

Still, I wonder about the development of this idea.

Obviously, this idea is too impressive to have been thought up by just a single individual. This idea has "committee" written all over it - and probably not just any kind of committee, but most likely a volunteer committee - probably containing some amount of "parents," as well.

I imagine five or six of these people sitting around a table - in this case trying to come up with some fun, Easter-type activities “for the kids.” Like far too many meetings that I've attended, I picture this meeting rapidly spiraling out of control - ideas flying like shells over the trenches - as it devolves into a frenetic game of one-upmanship.

Before the shell shock subsides, what probably started off as something simple, like dying a few Easter Eggs, had now escalated into the completely awesome idea of hiring a helicopter and having either Jesus or the Easter Bunny throw eggs down at the kids below.

Any sane person sitting at that table would have agreed that this was a fantastic idea - if only to get the hell out of the meeting.

Anyway, it probably wasn’t quite like that, but I'll bet it was close.