Surprised by Joy

We all like surprises don’t we? Some of you might say, “It depends.” And the hesitancy is because there are joyful and good surprises, but we also know and have expe-rience alarming, sorrowful, and bad surprises. Because of this some just wish not to be surprised at all, lest it be an unwanted one. One illustration of this is the effect of the Jack in the Box toy on young toddlers… So how would we label the surprise of Easter?