#becauseofhim

 First off, I must say that I think Easter is a strange holiday.  Easter, like most other holidays, is really a pagan holiday that the Roman Catholics hijacked as they pushed the Empire to the barbarians in Europe.  But Easter is actually a really important holiday.  As in the most important holiday.  The holiday that has brought about at least a million #becauseofhim hashtags on my Facebook and Ingram feeds (not to say that I didn't like the video, because I finally watched it today and was almost move to tears).  We celebrate Easter to commemorate when Christ made it possible for me to go to Heaven, to have all the bad stuff removed, to live with my family forever, to be resurrected--all the stuff in the Because of Him video, which I high recommend watching.  That's a pretty big deal.  Like a huge deal.  It is the single most important event in all eternity.  It is the thing on which our religion and my entire life hangs.

And how to do we celebrate it?

By allowing a giant egg-pooping bunny to sneak into our house some way and leave baskets of candy-filled eggs that this bunny presumably pooped.  That's weird.  At Christmas we have a creepy old fat man sneaking into our house, but at least we know how he gets in--the chimney--and how he's related to Christ--he brings presents like the wise men brought the Christ child.  Not sure how the Bunny gets in the house or how he in any way represents anything having to do with Atonement and Resurrection.  (Actually I heard today that the rabbit was a symbol of one the ancient German gods because of their high fertility rate and the relation between rebirth and spring--but it's still a stretch to get to the Atonement from there if you ask me).

Nevertheless, this year I abandoned my previous attempts to make Easter be the religious holiday that it should be and stuck to all the strictly secular stuff.  Why?  Exhibit A:

 I'm having a hard time getting showers in most days, let alone going above and beyond on the Easter thing, maybe next year.  Though I am listening to MoTab's rendition of the Messiah as I write this.

But we did dye eggs.

And we went to church today and managed to snap a quick picture of all the hoodlums looking at the camera before we left.

 After church, we headed to Maurine's in Greensboro for a family dinner and egg hunt.  (We also watched a bunch of Bible videos to bring in the Atonement/Resurrection theme to life a bit more).

So Happy Easter every one.  And really, you should watch the Because of Him video.  It really is very good.