Happy Easter

At first glance one looks at a kitchen towel and thinks, "Wow a towel... I needed a new one. The old ones are getting stained and worn." But have we ever stopped to think that for years, even thousands of years the towel has not just been in the kitchen, but for a variety of reasons?

Take for example the mother who wipes the tears of a little child to soothe the physical and emotional hurt; the physician who binds the wounds of a bleeding patient; the woman in her home wiping her hands as she moves from task to task; the weary traveler who wipes his sweated brow. The manager of a boxer even "throws in the towel" to save the life of his protege, and the young man wipes the grease off his hands on his towel as he fixes the old jalopy.

Notwithstanding all the above examples, perhaps the most significant use of the towel was about two thousand years ago when our loving brother took an ordinary towel in his hands and dried the feet of the disciples only hours before his crucifixion. Sure, the towel is a handy item with a myriad of uses, but it also has a deep symbolic meaning when seen in the hands of the Savior doing works of kindness for his fellowman.

So take a towel and do works of goodness with it, as the Savior worked goodness with his, so many years ago.