A man tells of visiting a college which had for its students’ protection, security call boxes every few hundred feet. If you were wandering around the campus at night and felt uneasy about somebody following you, you could hit the button on that call box and have a security officer come investigate immediately.
On one of these phones hung a sign that said, “Out of Order.”
Underneath the “Out of Order” sign someone had scrawled, “Keep Running!” (1)
To me that is a metaphor of how many people live their lives today they can’t find any security or real peace, so they just keep running.
It was the evening of the first Easter Sunday. Earlier that morning Peter and John had been to the tomb. They had discovered it was empty. They saw the strips of linen as well as the cloth that had been wra…