"JEREMY"

     "Do you hear what these children are saying? They asked

      Him. 'Yes,' replied Jesus, 'have you never read "From the lips

      of children and infants you have ordained praise"?'"

                                                                         ---Matthew 21:16

      The priests turned a blind eye to all this. Yet their indignation 

Knows no bounds at the irreverence' of Jesus. He actually healed 

people in the temple courts and let the children chant the earlier

tributes of the crowds!

      Miss Miller had taught many students at the christian school, 

but none so exasperating as Jeremy. He was twelve years old, slightly

retarded, and had not  progressed beyond the second grade. Miss 

Miller had repeatedly tried to place Jeremy in a special class, but the 

boy's parents wanted him to stay with his classmates. This frustrated

her, as she had eighteen other youngster to supervise.

      After teaching about the Resurrection one day, Miss Miller gave

the class an assignment, each child was given a large plastic eggs

and told to bring it back the next day with something inside that 

showed new life. All the kids were enthusiastic except for Jeremy.

Miss Miller wasn't certain the boy understood.

      The next morning the children arrived in class with their eggs,

laughing and discussing their surprise inside. In one egg a child had

placed a flower. In another, a plastic butterfly. One concealed a rock

with moss. When Miss Miller opened Jeremy's egg, it was empty. 

She reasoned that he must not have understood the instructions. 

Because she did not want to embarrass the disabled boy, she 

quietly set the egg aside. 

      "Miss Miller," Jeremy spoke to,  aren't you going to talk about my 

egg?" The teacher replied that it was empty. "Yes, but the tomb of

Jesus was empty too."

       While the other children ran out to the schoolyard, Miss miller

stayed behind, wiping her tears. Here she had thought it was a waste

of time trying to teach Jeremy, but all the while, he had cultivated a 

wisdom far beyond that of his classmates. Three months laters, Jeremy

died. And those who paid their respects at the funeral home were 

suprised to see nineteen eggs on top of his casket. All of them, empty.