Easter

We have a good friend who is giving soap this Easter to many of the important people in his life.  He's a great guy, a nice guy, an artist, and a good neighbor and friend.  I've thought a lot about him giving soap as as an Easter gift.  On the surface it seems unusual.  Soap for Easter?  And from a guy?  Maybe he's just helping out his friends who own a little soap company.  That's okay with me.

But as I've thought about it, I've come to realize a nice bit of symbolism in the gift.  Soap is refreshing and invigorating, like a clear, warm spring morning.  Soap is colorful and fragrant, almost intoxicating, like walking through a meadow of sweet-smelling spring flowers.  And, like that first Easter Morning, so many years ago, soap makes us clean and new.  

The gift of soap for Easter is an unexpected analogy of the Atonement of Jesus, a beautiful and simple reminder of that moment He took away my sins.  If I will just accept His gift, and if I will simply and daily apply it in my life, I can be free of the dust and the dirt and the grime I have so often and so easily collected.


Sorry if it sounds like I’m just trying to sell soap.  Of course I love to sell soap, but, long before I sold soap, I believed. 

Happy Easter