Easter Stories and Little Details by Allison Symes
Image Credits: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. The Easter story is the greatest of all time but, within it, I have favourites. One is that of Mary mistaking Jesus for the gardener. You can picture it. Blinded by her grief, she literally couldn’t see who the man was. It was only when He spoke, she knew Him. We understand her here. Little details in our stories will help convince a reader our characters could be real. There are plenty of little details in the Biblical stories which, for me, cement their truthfulness. Someone would have queried the resurrection. It was and is an incredible story. It was unexpected for the disciples despite Jesus telling them about it repeatedly! They hadn’t taken it in. Mind you, I know I would’ve been the same. The story of Doubting Thomas makes the resurrection more real to me. I like to think of that as his ministry in a way. I always wonder if Jesus visited His mother after the resurrection. The Bible doesn’t say but I would hope