I love this time of year!
The January through March grays and browns are yielding to greens and purples. Spring is springing. Nature is clearly headed to the Spring dance!
Easter is around the corner. Colored eggs, kids' programs, and the hunt for the new Sunday outfits are off and running. This is a great time of year!
Easter is that time of year that the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. The whole world is talking about it. One of the things I love about it is that this is not some made-up hoax. It is a calendaric, historical event. Jesus was killed only to arise on the third day!
A magnificent support to this claim is the perpetual excitement to the three-letter world N E W.
New lights up the eyes of children. New clothes brighten any one's day. New house, new car, new raise, new job, new hairdo, new....has always been "in".
New never gets old.
It is at this time of the year that new life pokes up from the soil in the form of baby flowers. Even the grass, transitioning from deadening brown to resurrected green, seems to applaud in memory of God's magnificent obsession with newness.
Historical Jesus was historically raised from a historical tomb.
For any to doubt such might as well doubt that there ever was a man named Jesus born in Bethlehem. Everyone believes the existence part. The resurrection part is believable as well. Nature replicates this God-move routinely.
Easter. A hoax? Not ever!
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