APRIL FOOLS' DAY

According to USA TODAY Snapshots, these are the top three April Fools' Day jokes:

1) Swiss spaghetti harvest: In 1957, the BBC said Swiss farmers were harvesting a huge spaghetti crop due to the near elimination of the spaghetti weevil. Coverage showed peasants picking spaghetti from trees.

2) Sidd Finch: In April 1985, Sports Illustrated writer George Plimpton wrote an article about a new Mets pitcher, side Finch, a Buddhist monk who could throw a 168 MPH fastball.

3) Instant color: In 1962, Sweden’s only TV channel broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert shows how viewers could convert their sets to color by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen.

April Fools’ Day or All Fools' Day, is celebrated around the world on the first day of April. On this day it is customary to play practical jokes on people, causing them to believe something that isn’t true or to go on a fruitless errand. Although the origin of the custom is unknown, a common theory is that it developed as part of ancient spring festivals.

I find it interesting that this year, we remember April Fools Day during the first week of the Easter season. What some might consider to be the biggest joke of all - God coming to earth, taking on human form, dying, and rising again to new life - is in fact the power and wisdom of God to save.

It's no joke - Christ has died, Christ has risen and Christ will come again!

"Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become "fools" so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. "

1 Corinthians 3:18-19