“Taste the difference” it said, bold and clear on the top of the pack of sliced ham I was about to open to make my lunchtime sandwich. It wasn’t our usual purchase, and I wondered if I would actually notice any difference!
As Judy works in school, I’m on my own for lunch four days a week, and so it is really a quick snack while I think on. That day I was both thinking about what to write for Chipperfield News…April…Easter…and going over in my mind what I had planned to say at School Assembly within the next half hour.  My mind flipped backwards and forwards from one to the other.
“Taste the difference”, I noticed again, as the meat went into the two sliced bread rolls.  I paused. Isn’t that just the way of things with Easter? We know the ‘label’. Jesus Christ, crucified, risen, alive forever. Alive now, today…claiming that he came to give us life in all its fullness …as we open ourselves to Him, and discover the reality of His presence with us in all the ups and downs of our often over-complicated, busy, ever fraught lives?
Yes, the ham was good, very good…and as for Jesus Christ, risen…well I guess you’ve read the label, maybe many times…but as to opening it and discovering …?
I hope you have a very special Easter.
With my greetings,   Jim Stevens