The eggs are dyed, fake grass is all over your living room & in other mysterious places, plastic eggs are opened and missing their mate, hollow chocolate bunnies are missing their ears, Easter dresses are stained, and pastors are still sleeping after their powerful Easter Sunday messages. As any holiday, Easter has come and gone in a flash and we are all recuperating this Monday. So, now what?
I am a big holiday lover. I LOVE the traditions, sights, sounds, and smells. I love the anticipation and excitement; especially now that I have a child. However, there is something about Easter that is unlike any other holiday throughout the year. I love Easter but feel like there is just too much hype. I know. Weird. How can there be more hype about Easter than say Christmas? I guess I just feel like everyday is a celebration of the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus why put so much pressure on one weekend? And why do we feel the need to buy a million plastic eggs and candy and scare the tar out of our children by placing them on the lap of some giant furry bunny?
I understand the need to celebrate what Jesus did for us. I really do. I guess sometimes I feel like many of us only remember the unfathomable sacrifice of His suffering and death on the cross and His enormous grace in the hope of His resurrection during the Easter season.
For me, the death and resurrection is in my mind daily. I honestly don't think I go a day without remembering what He did for me. It's in my veins; the very depth of my bones. Can I fully wrap my head around this precious gift? Absolutely not. However, Jesus' life, death, and resurrection are a part of me not to be celebrated one weekend a year but a living breathing part of who I am. So, I sit here this Monday after Easter coming down off of my food comma and sugar high still remembering what HE did for me. And I will remember tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...
"And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." Hebrews 10:10
"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name." Hebrews 13:15
I am a big holiday lover. I LOVE the traditions, sights, sounds, and smells. I love the anticipation and excitement; especially now that I have a child. However, there is something about Easter that is unlike any other holiday throughout the year. I love Easter but feel like there is just too much hype. I know. Weird. How can there be more hype about Easter than say Christmas? I guess I just feel like everyday is a celebration of the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus why put so much pressure on one weekend? And why do we feel the need to buy a million plastic eggs and candy and scare the tar out of our children by placing them on the lap of some giant furry bunny?
I understand the need to celebrate what Jesus did for us. I really do. I guess sometimes I feel like many of us only remember the unfathomable sacrifice of His suffering and death on the cross and His enormous grace in the hope of His resurrection during the Easter season.
For me, the death and resurrection is in my mind daily. I honestly don't think I go a day without remembering what He did for me. It's in my veins; the very depth of my bones. Can I fully wrap my head around this precious gift? Absolutely not. However, Jesus' life, death, and resurrection are a part of me not to be celebrated one weekend a year but a living breathing part of who I am. So, I sit here this Monday after Easter coming down off of my food comma and sugar high still remembering what HE did for me. And I will remember tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...
"And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." Hebrews 10:10
"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name." Hebrews 13:15
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