Later I went to CCC, the church I have been attending. The sermon here was based on the scripture Luke 24:13-35. This is the Resurrection story and in the telling, two disciples were walking to Emmaus when Jesus joined them. They did not recognize Jesus.
A sweet anecdote, from former Royal Protection Officer Richard Griffin, at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral sheds light on the Queen's dry sense f humor.
Griffin revealed that the Queen once played a prank on two American tourists who didn't recognize her.
Griffin said he and the Queen came across the American hikers one day while they were walking around the grounds of Balmoral Castle, her holiday home in Scotland.
"There were two hikers coming towards us, and the Queen would always stop and say hello," Griffin said. "And it was clear from the moment we first stopped that they hadn't recognized the Queen."
Griffin said one of the Americans began telling the Queen where they came from and what sites they had seen in Great Britain. Then he asked the Queen where she lived.
"She said, 'Well I live in London, but I've got a holiday home just on the other side of the hills,"' Griffin recalled. "And he said, 'How often have you been coming up here?'"
When the Queen told the American she had been coming up to Balmoral Castle for over 80 years, the hiker asked if she had ever met Queen Elizabeth.
"Well I haven't, but Dick here meets her regularly," the Queen replied, referring to Griffin.
The hiker then turned to Griffin and asked: "Oh, you've met the Queen? What's she like?"
"Because he had been with her a long time, he knew Ihe could pull her leg, and said, 'Oh, she can be very cantankerous at times, but she's got a lovely sense of humor,"'.
The American then put his arm around Griffin, got his camera out, and gave it to the Queen, asking if she could snap a picture of him with the royal protection officer.
"Anyway, we swapped places and I took a picture of them with the Queen and we never let on and we waved goodbye," Griffin said. "And Her Majesty said to me, 'I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to their friends in America — and hopefully someone tells him who I am.'"
Jesus is at the center of this Resurrection story. Would you recognize Him if He were right next to you? Is He in the background, a 'fly on the wall', waiting for you to 'see'? Even if you are a non-believer, read the story, see what you think.
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Happy Easter