The day the garden changed. The first Easter.

Mosiah and Juriel were mice in a local garden just outside Jerusalem. They knew nothing of the city or the area around, they just knew the garden they lived. It was a good place with plenty of food and a couple of good little burrows in the rocks to have a home.

The giants would come by and take care of the garden. Planting, weeding, and harvesting the fruits and vegetables. The giants always left some food behind for Mosiah and Juriel, never really doing a clean picking of all the fruits. That was good for the mice’s survival.

The giants had carved out a large room in the rocks some time ago. Juriel had checked it out but told Mosiah the it was too big for them to use. And Juriel just felt wrong about using it.

Late one day a group of giants carried a giant into the large room. The giant being carried was very still and wrapped in white clothing. Mosiah said he was dead and the giants put dead into the large rooms. The mice watched as the giants rolled a stone in front of the room.

“Oh, well. We didn’t want that room anyway.” Said Mosiah

The next morning early more giants showed up. They put some stuff on the rock door to the room. Two giants stayed at the rock. The garden was getting too crowded and busy.

Juriel told his friend maybe we need to find a different garden. There are too many giants around, we may get stepped on. So they decided the next day they would pack up and move.

Early the next morning, the ground was shaking. Juriel woke Mosiah up and they raced out of their house. There was a bright light by the giants and the stone door was rolling open. The two giants standing there had fallen. A brilliant white giant walked out of the room as the other two giants got up and fled.

The bright white giant looked at us, smiled, and put out his hand to calm us. Then we saw the hole in the hand. And he was gone.

Mosiah said, “Now what!”

”I don’t know.” Let’s go back home for now.”

We watch from our burrow for the next couple hours. People would come and look in the empty stone room and cry. They would run away.

Once a woman came and talked to some people in white. The white people told the woman the dead man was alive. She came out still crying and asked the man she met. “Where is my dead teacher?” The person said her name “Mary”. She recognized him. We knew him too when He first came out of the room.

Finally all the noise and people running back and forth stopped. We wondered what next. “Should we move?“ asked Juriel. “No, it’s a good garden. Maybe this is a one time event.” said Mosiah.

Then right before us stood a pure white bright mouse like us, but different. He said, “ You have witnessed the resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus. God said please stay in this garden the rest of your days. God will take care of you.

So Mosiah and I stayed in the garden, but we never forgot the events of that day.

He is Risen, He is risen indeed.