A Poor Man’s Ticker-tape Parade

Frederick Buechner is a master of capturing the excitement of the moment of Palm Sunday. It’s a great reminder that the story itself is a great illustration!

We call it Palm Sunday because maybe they were palm branches that were thrown into the road in front of him as he approached the city—a kind of poor man's red-carpet treatment, a kind of homemade ticker-tape parade. 

Just branches is all the record states, but maybe palms is what they actually were, and in any…