Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Oh, what to celebrate?

I wrote this on the ride home from Iowa this past Sunday

What is the purpose of holidays? A holiday is to remember an event, right? To remember and celebrate?

Well, today is Easter. The holiday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There’s nothing better to celebrate, except for maybe the birth of Christ, which is just as important. But today, outside of church this morning, nothing was said about Jesus. At least nothing that I heard. The focus was on the Easter ham. We didn’t even pray before we ate today. We may celebrate on this day… but we certainly didn’t celebrate Easter.

Jesus simply wasn’t part of Easter this year.

Being with family during holiday’s isn’t wrong. Pigging out during holidays isn’t wrong. But when you don’t celebrate with Jesus, it’s meaningless I think.

So what did you celebrate this Easter?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

I woke up, walked down stairs and was greeted with a "Happy resurrection day" as I am every Easter. Then we went to church where we greeted each other with a "happy resurrection" day good morning...as we do every Easter. Later on we ate lamb with mint jelly after bowing our heads and thanking God for not only coming into this world, but dying and showing us His power by resurrecting. Then we watched two kids find easter baskets from the easter bunny. Easter is great and candy is nice, but God is the focus.