Long before the Easter Bunny was the Easter Bunny, he was a quiet bunny named Maurice. He loved to sit in the grass all day and watch the clouds move across the sky.

One day as he was minding his own business he heard the rustle of leaves high on a pine tree. As he looked up, he saw a fleeting movement. Something transparent fluttering in the distant branches.

"Could it be?," asked Maurice. It was God, coming to ask Maurice to be his helper for Easter. "Maurice," said God, " Could you lend me your time and deliver the spirit of Easter for me?"

That is why you see him always wearing that basket on his back with many little gifts to give out with many good thoughts.

Every Easter, if one is lucky you can see him scooting around quickly dropping eggs all over the world, bringing joy to young and old.

Whenever the bunny runs out of eggs, he just sits at the foot of the pine tree, and the iridescent bird sent by God will provide him with a full assortment of chocolate eggs in all colors.

He was delivering eggs everyday to everyone until he realized that people were getting used to it. The spirit of Easter was becoming a commonplace occurrence.  How would he make the people understand that this was special?

Maurice decided he would inscribe spiritual messages on each of the eggs before he handed them out.

"Would the people really read these inscriptions?," wondered Maurice. "Well, it's worth a shot." Maurice began inscribing the eggs with messages, reminding people that Easter was much more than eggs and the Easter Bunny. It represented the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Then he limited the egg delivery to only one day a year so that people would stop and ponder over the true meaning of Easter.