Spring, Easter... NEW LIFE

Here we are mid April and on Friday, I was still wandering and glazed. I don't think I was reflecting, yet! I think when I am caught up in a holiday, unfortunately even a HOLYday, and the rush from one activity to the next I come out having a tough time with the transition. The whole "egg part" of Easter is my scapegoat this year. Oh, but it could have been anything. Perhaps though, as the children are getting older they could "independently" dye the eggs while I do my part of the Sunday meal during this activity versus cooking at midnight on the eve before Easter. I am not complaining or berating myself. I am thankful that I did do it the day before versus Easter afternoon. And, I am glad that as a family we attended the Zoo egg hunt on Saturday morning. See the pattern... two egg activities. :-) No one pop-culture activity should get too much room in the lime-light.

Between the basket on Easter Sunday, the egg hunt, and Easter "display" on the buffet that was our extent of "celebrating" Spring. Though living in a cold weather climate brings much desire to celebrate this new season. But, I do not want my family to become distracted from the true reason to celebrate and who it is that gives NEW LIFE.

Today, I am here with this fifteen minute commitment to peel back the moment and take a sweet taste of the season. Easter, our Spring HOLYday, consisted of... JESUS, the reality that Christ has redeemed us if we receive what He did as Savior. And, as we can often do... life, and stuff, and the tendency to clutter up the diamond amongst the "rough;" we become distracted. Yet if we taste and see, we will see that it is He which is truly good and sweet. Only He can satiate our longings, not these baskets of sweet treats that I allow to lull me when I am tired, bored, lonely, or distracted.