Easter. A time of recognition of the murder of Jesus.
As most of you know, being you are Christians, the best way to honor the killing of Jesus is by showing God we understand the ways of the murderous joos and catlicks. Here at the Hutchins home, we do this by a careful re-enactment. Several weeks ago, one of the Hutchins boys was tasked with cutting down a massive old growth oak an axe. Then with the axe, saw and scraper, he created beams about 6 inches square and 11 feet long. He mortises out and created a cross. Some of the other smaller children fashioned spikes out of iron ore dug from one of the old mines on the property. To see a ten year old boy working the forge, the black coke on his forehead and the sweat on his brow, swinging the hammer on the cherry red metal, sparks flying. Truly joyous.
This Friday night, the boy (I forget his name) will carry the cross from the woodshop up to the top of Hutchins hill (about a mile rock strew hike) while the rest of the family taunts and throws stones at him. The Hutchins women are preparing a feast feat for God and will have tables set up on the way for everyone (but what his name with the cross) to snack on as it is a mile hike.
Saturday morning, the cross should be set in the ground and the boy, perched up in it. Secular law forbids us from driving the spikes through his flesh, so there are set into the cross and the boy stands on the spkes at his feet and holds onto those at his hands. All day long, the feast continues as does the rock throwing, well into the night.
Usually, on Sunday morning the boy has collapsed and is take to Abner's Cave and he is tossed in with a plate of fat and a Bible. We close the cave off with rock (we use a backhoe as only God is strong enough to move the boulders unaided)
Glory!
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.