Today's blog just happens upon Easter this year. Easter is a holiday I use to hate, primarily for non religious types of reasons. Instead of gifts that lasted very long like Christmas instead you got candy. And generally, that candy was gone within a few hours to a few days. We ate eggs and had food that I had a great dislike for (except for that wonderful Polish sausage) and the church service was such a long service on a Saturday night. Yikes!
As I have grown older, the candy concept has become less a part of my life, especially as a childless couple, and maybe out of habit my liking for Easter has remained fairly the same. I realize its the culmination of my religious faith and all and that Jesus died for our sins..I don't dispute that. But the excitement isn't there.
This year, today specifically, Easter is about family. Today most of my family will be getting together at my brother and his wife's house. My sister-in-law has already prepared and hidden the eggs for the kids to find. The thoughts of the joy on the little one's face as they look for the eggs is what motivates me today. Nothing is more innocent then the life of a child.
As I say that, I begin to think that Easter is about more than Jesus dying to save our sins. It's about re-birth or even new birth. It's about the innocence that we all have the ability to have again in our life. It's about forgiving and forgetting and moving forward. It's about family.
So, while not everyone will be there, most of us will. And today I will remember how my past sins and misgivings are forgiven and how I am able to be like a child again. (But it didn't hurt that my husband bought me some Dove chocolates this year!) Happy Easter everyone.
And from here, I want to reiterate, Happy Easter to all. Easter Candlelight Vigil is always a beautiful thing, but we do consider the length, and thus missed last night's service. I think that it's okay to kick back sometimes. The extra one hour spent at the Grotto at Notre Dame yesterday helped me to reflect and feel the Easter season. I do appreciate what Jesus did for us, and I acknowledge and celebrate His resurrection today.
ReplyDeleteI am not much of a candy eater. But we have a mountain of sugary stuff for the grandkids. We'll go there for a very good dinner, and then leave while the children are still hopping all over the place, burning off all that sugar.
Hey--HEY---HEYYYYY
ReplyDeleteHAPPY EASTER
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