Chaplain’s Corner: There! How was that? Published April 3, 2009 By Chaplain (Maj.) Dwight Magnus 507th Air Refueling Wing TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., -- A couple of F-15s are escorting a C-130 Hercules. The F-15 pilots chat with the pilot of the transport to pass the time. Talk comes around to the relative merits of their respective aircraft. The fighter pilots contend that their airplanes are better because of their superior speed, maneuverability, weaponry and so forth, and pointed out the Hercules' deficiencies in these areas. After taking this for a while, the C-130 pilot says, "Oh yeah? Well, I can do a few things in this old girl that you'd only dream about." Naturally, the fighter pilots challenge him to demonstrate. "Just watch," comes the quick retort. And so they watch. But all they see is the C-130 continue to fly straight and level. After several minutes, the Hercules pilot comes back on the air, "There! How was that?" The fighter pilots reply, "What are you talking about? What did you do?" The Hercules pilot replies, "Well, I got up, stretched my legs and went and got a cup of coffee." Similarly, many of us don't really recognize what God has done in the Easter story. We've got hi-tech toys, with great graphics and things that the generations before us could only dream of. And the simple 2,000-year-old Easter story comes along and it feels like a great old C-130 Hercules. We figure, "It's old. What can it do?" We search the Internet and we think we've got Christianity nailed down. I mean look at the colossal failures of people of faith through the centuries -- and they are numerous. But through the centuries, and even with modern hi-tech sophistication and our evolved sensibilities, no one can explain away the events of Easter. The resurrection story comes to us, sneaking into our consciousness, and somehow we hear a voice in that Easter story: "There! How was that?" May you rediscover the joy of Easter!