Palm Sunday, to a Kid of Cement and Steel: The donkey as a symbol of peace and royalty

We look at the two times in my life that I have encountered donkeys, once as a boy on the edge of town, and once in Santorini, Greece.  These incidents remind me of the two biblical qualities of donkeys, and why this makes the donkey the perfect animal for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem.  We also look at why Jesus was not the savior that many people in Jerusalem were hoping for, and this reinforces why he was indeed on a donkey.  We look, as well, at the Old Testament prediction of a king on a donkey...