You see, Jesus had been at Bethany, he had raised Lazarus, and he had drawn a crowd. Any time you perform a miracle, any time somebody gets up from the dead, somebody will follow you. They may not be following you for the right reason. They just knew that it was amazing that Lazarus was dead four days in the grave, and he got up because a Nazarene prophet named Jesus said, "Come forth."

And so they followed Him and made a big event out of it. For some reason this disturbs me just a little bit, and I'm going to ask God when I get to heaven to explain a lot of things. (Well, not really but I'd like to think I will be able to.) If I could ask God a few key questions when I make it - I didn't say if I make - I said when I make it. What I'm going to ask Him is: Exactly what were you doing? You knew your Son was going to die and suffer. Why did you have a parade? Perhaps God will answer, "I had the parade because even in the midst of sorrow, we can't lose our joy. Anybody who's on the road anywhere knows it's not going to be a perfect situation. So, I insert things into your life," God says.

So, don't be too worried about how you're going to get out of Cal Berkeley or how you're going to get a job or how you're going to find a husband or how you're going to find a wife. Don't get so burdened down you can't have some joy every now and then." So He creates interludes. He intervenes. He inserts Himself into our lives.

Well, my brothers and sisters, as we go through Palm Sunday in anticipation of the great celebration, as we go through this Lenten season of reflection and meditation, we also know that the Day is coming when we will be restored. We will be revived and rejuvenated because if there's a Palm Sunday, if there's a Good Friday, there's also a Resurrection.