So every day this week, I've been meaning to finish this blog post so that it was still somewhat connected to Easter weekend. Five days later, here we are....
This Easter, I thought a lot about how to explain its true meaning to Charlotte. I know that she is only 1 and not really even capable of knowing what day it is, but I was struck with a desire to tell her what Easter is truly about. The funny thing is, while I did have a couple of moments of talking to Charlotte about Easter (as she played with bunnies or handed me another book to read to her), I was the one who benefited most from contemplating the meaning of Easter.
I had a couple more pictures from Sunday that I wanted to post, so along with them, I wanted to document a couple of Easter thoughts that keep bouncing around inside my head this year. Maybe Charlie can look back on this and see what I really wanted to tell her:
Death did not hold Jesus' body because he had no sin. I'm not sure if this is completely theologically sound or not, but I like the way that it shows the powerlessness of death in light of Jesus' power. We give death so much power over us and Jesus such little credit for the power he has.
Jesus took the judgment of God that we deserve and replaced it with God's favor. I don't think I can add much to that except to say - wow!
God is holy and perfect and good - only that God can and would judge sin (if he didn't, he would no longer be righteous), and only that God can save. Thank you, Lord, for saving us in the midst of our rebellion and wanting to restore relationship with us!
And now for some of my favorite family pictures we've taken in a long time
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