hmmm...easter this year was a bit different. i didn't go to good friday service this year...i scheduled something on that night before i realized it was good friday. that's kinda how it was this year...easter arrived quickly and was over before i knew it. really kinda lame...totally my bad.
i did find the "american celebration" of easter quite intriguing this year. i remember my first easter after becoming a christian. i was amazed at how i had grown-up celebrating easter every year with a big family get-together, but no one in my family is Christian. i wondered on that first easter, what were we celebrating and why didn't i question our celebration earlier?
now that easter has a more real and powerful meaning to me, it still amazes me that so many people in this country celebrate easter without the real meaning. one person at work on friday even said to me, "isn't there some holiday this weekend? oh yeah, easter....we should have an easter egg hunt or go to dinner or something." i wanted to ask them why they felt compelled to celebrate it, but didn't know how to say it in a tactful way. i was also surprised to learn that the stock market takes good friday off, and that shopping malls are closed on easter sunday.
it intrigues me that easter is such a recognized holiday...i mean it's a good thing (i think), but weird that many people celebrate it but don't realize what it is that they are celebrating. but i guess that's the same with christmas. but i don't think it's SO weird for christmas b/c it is the "nicer" holiday...marketing-wise. hmmm...it's sad that we (me included) are so easily blinded and can't see God standing there right in front of us with open arms...he's standing there with the gift of forgiveness and life with Him, paid with His sacrifice for us b/c of his love for us...and we just walk (and often times run) on by...
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