Hi friends!
We are just heading out the door to take Mitch to his first high school baseball tournament in Indiana so this will be short and sweet. (And we are leaving Spence home with his Aunt Thais. They are two peas in a pod of fun and frolic. I hope the house is still standing when we return!)
Anyhow…..Giveaway time!
Here is a fun kitchen giveaway I’ll be shipping out Monday to one of you who leaves a comment any time this weekend. It includes:
- A set of colorful Easter cookie cutters
- Two springy kitchen towels
- A Paula Dean Mango Chutney candle
(Sorry. No picture. Camera is already packed and we are running late.)
Ok. This is simple.
Leave a comment about your favorite aspect of Easter.
That’s it!
Winner will be announced Monday. Be sure to tune back in then. I’ll have a devotion running at Proverbs 31 and on Crosswalk.com and will be offering and even bigger giveaway you won’t want to miss.
Happy weekend!
Good Friday services are one of my favorite aspects about Easter. It is always amazing to reflect so intently on the pain and suffering our Lord took on our behalf, suffering we could have never born. So then we can rejoice at his resurrection and the eternal hope we have in Him!
Family time!
Family time – art/games/prizes. Good food. (Hope belongs to me!)
Other than of course the fact of what it celebrates, I love all the Easter contatas!
I have so many favorites!!! I love picking out special treats for the Easter baskets. I love dying and painting eggs. I love hiding the eggs outside while the kids are inside peeking out the window.
I just love the celebration at Easter church services – the fact that Christ rose victoriously from the grave gives us so much joy and hope as Christians! As a child we always attended the community sunrise service and that was always special too!
I love Easter because there is so much family time. We celebrate the Easter bunny and baskets on Saturday, and it is so fun to see the kids so excited to get their eggs. I love Easter Sunday. Everyone looking their absolute best, the songs of Christ, the stories of Christ, it is so spiritual and uplifting!
My favorite part of Easter is the sunrise service at our church. The sun has not quite broke the horizon. There are flowers everywhere. The best part is that I know my savior Jesus died for my sins and rose from the dead and I am saved.
Love singing the songs of victory over the grave!
I love the long weekend/Easter break that my daughters have off from school. I love our family and friends get-together at our house of coloring eggs, making Easter cookies, our very own egg hunt and fun! I love getting up early Saturday morning and going to our chosen “public” Easter egg hunt and taking lots of pictures! I love getting together with our families on Sunday at church and for family meals (two of them!). Most of all I love that Easter is a celebration of Christ rising from the dead after suffering for my sins!
I love the excitement of thinking of the resurrection and that death no longer holds our Lord. It’s exciting to know that we can live with Him forever! I love the Easter dramas that tell this story also.
Sunrise service
I love Easter because it celebrates that Christ is no longer on the cross and that he has risen. I also love Easter because for my is feels like the start of Spring, warmer weather and a sense of new beginnings.
i enjoy services at church
I should say the music, or the services at church, but in truth, my memories of the Easter baskets that I received when I was young. Why? I love black licorice and the only time I received my own bag was in the Easter basket.
Besides what it means, my favorite part of Easter is the triumphant songs we sing at church Easter morning. I love the special food afterwards and hiding eggs too!
There are so many things about Easter that I love. It starts with coloring eggs with my kids, Good Friday Service, Easter Service, and then Easter dinner with our family. A very emotional weekend for me as we relive Christ’s crucifiction during Good Friday and then the awesome reminder of eternal life on Easter morning.
I love getting together with my family. Well, that and the fact that my 25, 23 and 14 still insist that we HAVE to color eggs…..and yes hide them.
My church holds communion around Easter every year. It is such a special time of fellowship for our church family. I love it because it brings our focus back to Christ and draws us closer to each other.
My favorite aspect of Easter is the bonding time that we have as a family. We go to Church and rejoice and give thanks for the lessons learned during holy week.
The music and the services and really being able to see what God sacrificed for us! The difference between Maundy Thursday service and the three that we attended on Easter Sunday was incredible, and a pastor when I was in middle school really drove the point home by giving sermons as if she were different people of the times – Mary, a centurion, etc.
My favorite part of Easter is tied…Good Friday and Easter Sunday. To know all God sacrificed to save me is so humbling. When I hear classic hymns, I’m brought to tears of sadness, b/c no matter what I try to do, I cannot repay him for my salvation. Easter Sunday is such a wonderful day. I love the sunrise service-no longer do I attend since my curtain climbers are 4 year old twins and a 2 year old-to watch the bright sun shine through the stained windows at church is so pleasantly uplifting. I cry tears of joy knowing that I will be reunited with my mom and grandparents in heaven someday.
The fact that Good Friday is NOT a sad day. If it wasn’t for Friday, there could be no Sunday!
I love the good old Easter hymns: “Christ the Lord is Risen Today,” “He Lives,” “Up From the Grave He Arose,” as well as some of the more contemporary Easter songs like “He’s Alive” and “The Easter Song.”
Loving that my boys are so excited about Jesus!!!!!
My favorite aspect of Easter is the call to new beginnings! I am SO grateful to know my Daddy is a God of Restoration, 2nd Chances, and Seasons! Easter is such a sweet time to study the depth of the Atonement, the fastness of Love, and the joy of beginning anew!!
Celebrating our Risen Saviour! This post reminder me of my childhood. My mom always made Easter baskets for us, even through our teen years and she always hid them. Then on Easter morning, she would love just sitting there while we searched for them. My mom is with Jesus now and I miss her so much!
My favorite aspect about Easter is the cross. We nail together a simple cross. On Good Friday everyone in our family writes down a sin that we have been struggling with and each person nails their ‘sin’ to the cross. We have a time of prayer and reflection. When the kids wake up on Sunday morning the ‘sins’ are gone and are replaced with a purple piece of cloth drapped around the cross. The visual gives us an opportunity to have such great and important discussions with the kids. And now that I think about it, I’m about 99% sure I got this idea from one of your books – so thank you! The activity allows for all of my children to ‘see’ the forgiveness of our Savior, no matter their age. Thanks so much for the idea – it’s become one of our favorite parts of Easter!
And good luck Mitch! Hope you have a great season!
Sunrise services on Easter Sunday Morning
just seeing the sun rise and sing praises to God
what a beautiful day, love celebrating with family and friends
Time with my wonderful family!
Getting to sing my favorite song ever!! Christ Arose!! I sing it all year long! Also, my community always has an Easter sunrise service @ 6:30am every Easter. All the churches gather, and there is special music from all the churches and of course, a great message. I love the fellowship!
Easter hymns!
Also, our church has been going through a 28 week study preparing us for the Lord’s Supper Easter Sunday night. It has been a great study into what Jesus did for us and how important it is to take communion seriously.
My favorite aspect is that Jesus didn’t remain lifeless in that tomb. He came back to life to help a fallen mankind and to truly be our best friends. His willingness to accept agony for our sins is absolutely astounding! What tremendous love! Easter also signifies to me a time of re-birth in the appearance of blossoming flowers and trees after a “dead” winter. I feel that there is definitely a joyous analogy between this and Jesus’ resurrection.
Favorite part of Easter is focusing on my risen Saviour.
The part about Easter that moves me so much, is the fact that love ressurected on that Ressurection morning. It alway’s comes at the time of the year when even the earth and all of nature ressurects from a dead cold winter, and becomes fully alive again, with a freshness and a newness as if to say look we get a fresh new start. To see all the trees spring forward with new buds, and the grass poking it’s head through the ground with a vibrant green color, and flowers budding forth, with a freshness in the air that just invites you to become a part of it and let new life ressurect inside of us.
I’m late posting – but wanted to say this anyway. My favorite thing about Easter THIS YEAR is that my 9 and 5 year old daughters requested Daddy to videotape them telling the gospel story. They plan to leave it out for the Easter Bunny to hear. They want him to get saved.
I want to say that Jesus is the reason we are celebrating Easter. He is the reason we are alive. My two daughters and husband have to go to the Easter service at church
Hello Karen!
I was asking for God to speak to me today because I am at a cross roads and Iwant more of Jesus in my life than anything else…… AND WHEN I DECIDED TO CLICK ON THIS EMAIL I FOUND SO MUCH I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE!!
I, too, have used food and still do to “fill in something” – when things aren’t going well or whatever…… The words you used here really turned on the “light” for me……. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
I want to belong to this group!!! I will begin praying for everyone I encounter here……
I am also going to start TODAY using my eliptical and rebounder!!! Wow!! I am so grateful……. I wish I could meet you and give you a huge HUG!!!!
God did talk to me today!!!!! through YOU!!!! I am here to STAY!!!!
God’s Love and mine,
OIlivia Cowan *v*