It is Palm Sunday today on the Christian calendar and with it comes lots of cans. As I have spoken about in the past, our church does Kids' Can for Christ during the Lenten season. They collect food items for the Ftn City Ministry Center all during Lent. They are placed in a makeshift "tomb" in our narthex. Palm Sunday afternoon the cans are sorted, counted and taken to the ministry center to feed hungry people in our community. A door is placed on the tomb so that people coming for Holy Week services can see that it is sealed. On Easter morning, the door is off to reveal an empty tomb. The children enjoy helping with the process for sure. Yes, some of the kids find it fun to hide in the tomb from their grown ups or throw their cans in or out of it. What're you going to do? Nothing.
Learning to give to others is so very important and I am so glad that our children get to experience this each year. We are so fortunate to have food on our plates and in our tummies; we forget sometimes that there are people in our own back yard who have nothing. So I'll put up with a yearly search to find two or three "missing" children hiding in the Narthex cardboard tomb in order to see the miracle of Easter fill our hearts and community tummies once again.
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