This is a true story, told by my friend, Becky:
"This morning at 8:00 I was driving the kids to school. We saw the neighborhood flock of wild turkeys in the middle of the street. Two of them ran onto the sidewalk at our approach. But the third was lying completely lifeless in the middle of the road. And the fourth was standing tenaciously by his side pecking and prodding him. He refused to move for our car (Yes, i did swerve around him!). We were all so sad to see this dead turkey and his friend next to him. But then the "dead" turkey jumped up and the two of them followed their friends onto the sidewalk and up the hill.
Was this a 'Divine Turkey Easter?' Either that or turkeys like to play dead. I can just hear the conversation:
Turkey 1: 'Get up you stupid Turkey! This is no time to lie down. That car is going to flatten you like a boneless turkey TV dinner! If you get me flattened too I'm never speaking to you again!'
Turkey 2 (after my van swerves and misses them): 'Ha! I told you she would move for us. You owe me $5! And did you see the look on her face just now? She really thought I was dead! Priceless!'
Turkeys 3 and 4: 'Just keep trotting and pretend you don't know those two fools...'
Either God has one weird sense of humor or I need another cup of coffee!"
I'm convinced God has a sense of humor. And a sense of timing that seeks to throw us off. How else do you explain a turkey reenacting the resurrection? I mean, it's not even the right animal/holiday combination; and it's the middle of Lent, for God's sake. We aren't supposed to be witnessing resurrections. Certainly God is aware of that!
And what about this woman who dares to tell us such an outrageous story? Who is she to be speaking of God and resurrection in this manner? Imagine the looks that Mary Magdalene must have gotten when she told her unlikely story on that first Easter morning. "He is risen!" Yeah, right... Her friends, I suspect were skeptical, to say the least.
What God moments do we miss, because we are not willing to believe that the holy is actually in our midst?
Amy Sluss is an author and a health & health care consultant. A registered nurse by trade, she knows that active consumers are the real solution to our health care crisis. She teaches individuals and businesses how to leverage this knowledge to become healthier and to control health care costs. Check out her website, chartyourhealth.com
