Easter: Let's Celebrate!

As Easter Sunday approached and I began to realize that I had still not located our plastic eggs (on Saturday)or adorned our house with cute Easter decorations, I began to dismiss the importance of it all and I think come very close to missing the point of making a fuss entirely. I rationalized my unpreparedness by claiming Easter is not about hiding eggs, eating candy out of an Easter basket, wearing white sandals and a nice dress to church, or any of the other ritual we have attached to it. And truly it is not. However, it did dawn on me: Easter is about celebrating, and celebration is different than simple recognition or acknowledgement of something, even a very significant something.

As followers of Christ, we celebrate daily what Christ in his death and resurrection accomplished that we could not. But, Easter is to be a special celebration, a specific time to corporately remember and celebrate the good news of that first Easter morning: He has risen, indeed! During times of celebration, we should do things differently and in such a way to help us remember specific events and rejoice over them.

So, Saturday night after the kids went to bed, Daddy ran to the store for plastic eggs and candy for the kids. (Beyond just fun, the eggs can symbolize the new life we are given with Jesus, right?) I am certainly not pushing plastic eggs, candy or baskets and bonnets for Easter, nor am I suggesting that any of it equals proper celebration. We will use these things, the good, great and beautiful things here, to remind us of the goodness and greatness of our God and his creativity. And I will purpose to be better prepared next year to celebrate, better prepared in the heart and the home to thank God for the reconciliation He made possible that first Easter weekend.



Hey . . . we all celebrate in different ways. This boy's work was not done--even on Easter. He is looking sweet in his searsucker suit though!