Easter and Jesus..

Nok en gang stod verden til påske. Påskeegg, påskeharer og lammelår er over oss igjen, og jeg har de siste dagene gravd fram gamle kristendomskunnskaper fra barneskolen og prøvd å formidle påskebudskapet til 2-åringer. I kveld fikk jeg et ganske enkelt svar på hvorfor vi har både skjærtorsdag, langfredag og påskeaften. Og første påskedag. Hvorfor det går hele tre dager fra korsfestelsen til oppstandelsen. Hvorfor alt alltid skal utsettes tre dager. All thanks to "How I met Your Mother!"

Barney: Seriously. Jesus started the whole "wait three days" thing. He waited THREE days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited ONE day, a lot of people wouldn't have even heard that he died. They'd be all, "Hey Jesus, what's up?" and Jesus would probably be like, "What's up? I DIED yesterday!" and then they'd be all, "Uhh, you look pretty alive to me, dude..." and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and then the dude would be like "Uh okayy, whatever you say, bro..." And he's not gonna come back on a SATURDAY. Everybody's busy, doing chores, workin' the loom, trimmin' the beard, NO. He waited the exact right number of days, THREE. Plus it's SUNDAY, so everyone's in church already, they're all in there "Oh no, Jesus is DEAD", then BAM! He bursts through the back door, runs up the aisle, everyone's totally psyched, and FYI, that's when he invented the high five. Three days. We wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story.