It was Easter Saturday, and Mommy was sitting at the kitchen table coloring Easter eggs with her small son and daughter. She told them about the true meaning of Easter, and taught them the traditional Easter morning greeting, "He is risen!" and the response, "He is risen indeed!"

The children planned to surprise their father, a Presbyterian minister, with this greeting on Easter Sunday morning by saying, "He is risen!" as soon as he awoke.

The next morning, bright and early, the little boy heard his father arising in the bedroom, and raced down the hallway shouting, "Daddy, God's back!" (With thanks to that great little publication, The Joyful Noiseletter, published by the Fellowship of Merry Christians).

Happy Easter, everyone. God's back!

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