Tomorrow is Passover. I love Easter. I am glad on Easter I live here. I love to sing those glorious Easter songs that reverberate off of church ceilings and raise the roof on Sunday in the States. I love to say "He is Risen" and here the affirmative in reply. Even so Easter is one holiday I am thankful I am not in America celebrating.
At Christmas, I'd rather be in the States, I honestly don't mind Santa Claus. He bothers me when he takes the limelight but I love the warm feeling of carols in unexpected places song by unexpected artists with unexpected people humming along. I like the weather and the festive feeling. I love the colors and the drinks and the food. I love to sit with family and eat with family and just be with family. I love Christmas in America.
At Easter I struggle. I struggle with Easter Egg hunts. I struggle with pastel colors. I struggle with the way the most important holiday of our faith seems to be a half day affair starting and ending in church and peaking with new dresses. I struggle that Good Friday doesn't feel dark enough, huge enough, awesome enough so Easter is like water off a duck's back for one more year. How can the glorious glee of Sunday be anything if there is no heavy cross?
I am thankful for The Passion of the Christ and the year it came out giving a sobriety to our holiday but the Easter Bunny seems to have gotten bigger with each year. So how to redeem it, how to grab it back. First are you eating with anyone this Sunday? Are you opening your home to someone to celebrate this event? Are you talking about it, are you teaching your children and grandchildren about it? Are you talking about it while you drive, while you shop, while you cook, clean and do laundry?
Another idea to add weight to this Easter is to celebrate a Seder Meal, Passover Meal, sometime this week. It is not too hard, it is very meaningful and each year as I celebrate with different people I feel my heart swell with our truly amazing Christ.
..... more on this later, Zana just filled her diaper for the fifth time this morning, if you want a Seder Meal script and menu drop me a comment with your email.
At Christmas, I'd rather be in the States, I honestly don't mind Santa Claus. He bothers me when he takes the limelight but I love the warm feeling of carols in unexpected places song by unexpected artists with unexpected people humming along. I like the weather and the festive feeling. I love the colors and the drinks and the food. I love to sit with family and eat with family and just be with family. I love Christmas in America.
At Easter I struggle. I struggle with Easter Egg hunts. I struggle with pastel colors. I struggle with the way the most important holiday of our faith seems to be a half day affair starting and ending in church and peaking with new dresses. I struggle that Good Friday doesn't feel dark enough, huge enough, awesome enough so Easter is like water off a duck's back for one more year. How can the glorious glee of Sunday be anything if there is no heavy cross?
I am thankful for The Passion of the Christ and the year it came out giving a sobriety to our holiday but the Easter Bunny seems to have gotten bigger with each year. So how to redeem it, how to grab it back. First are you eating with anyone this Sunday? Are you opening your home to someone to celebrate this event? Are you talking about it, are you teaching your children and grandchildren about it? Are you talking about it while you drive, while you shop, while you cook, clean and do laundry?
Another idea to add weight to this Easter is to celebrate a Seder Meal, Passover Meal, sometime this week. It is not too hard, it is very meaningful and each year as I celebrate with different people I feel my heart swell with our truly amazing Christ.
..... more on this later, Zana just filled her diaper for the fifth time this morning, if you want a Seder Meal script and menu drop me a comment with your email.
I'd love a seder script...I left my stuff in India. I know it's late...but I hope I can still do some small passover with B & T tonight (with or without your script...so no pressure). Love you!
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