Passover and Another Special Day

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Okay, maybe I shouldn’t mention this, but I’m going to without trying to embarrass my wife and family, but the date today is special.  I’m not sure how to write about it without sounding—crazy.  I thought about this long and hard before writing about it.  Scholars believe Jesus was born in the Spring and today being Passover and a day before Easter, I thought I’d at least mention it.  

I have read a lot of Spring dates for Jesus’ birth.  I have read April 14, April 7, and dates in May for Jesus’  birth.   I have not read about April 12, but I am sure this date has been suggested by at least a few.  But how do I go about talking about it without embarrassment?  Let me just say I know and leave it at that.  

There is no way of knowing when Passover was some 2,000 years ago, nor can we know what the date was when Jesus was put to death.  Today is a very special day and maybe this is all I need to say.  Those who know how I know this is the date and that I know and leave it at that.  I wish there were some mathematical formula I could say proves I’m right, but no such proof exists except by what I’m saying.  

In fact I have no proof other than myself.  I’ll leave it at that.  I’ll smoke my pipe claiming to know what I know and leave it at that.  It could turn out to be a very special day or nothing special about it.  Maybe I just need to say it’s a special day and leave it at that.  I won’t talk about how I know what I claim to know.  We might learn more as the day progresses or maybe it will be just another day unless you are Jewish, then it is special anyway.  I’ll just relax and smoke my Boswell pipe with my Old Professor pipe tobacco.  My coffee this morning is Stumptown Holler Mountain coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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