Sunday Night with Anne Badger

There are moments I find myself transported back into time.  It usually has to do with my kids.

Holidays are when the present and the past get intertwined in a beautiful, tapestry of memorable moments.  

Easter is no exception.  In fact, much of my tapestry of memories come from Holy Week. 

These past few days I have taken a few traditions and done them with my kids.  Today, we dyed eggs.

As I began to boil the water, my mother came over, “Why didn’t you put the eggs in cold water and then boil them?” she asked.

Apparently, there’s a lot to doing this I didn’t know.

Still, it was fun to make a few memories with my kids and recall the days of my youth when I did the same thing.  

As I type this, my children are playing “Go Fish.”  I remember playing card games in this same house with my grandmother.

My Easter traditions have varied over the last few years.  We try to spend time in the Hill Country of Texas with my parents, go to church, and do an egg hunt on my parent’s front lawn.  That is when the memories really kick in because as a child I ran that front lawn with all of the beautiful oak trees and searched for eggs like a detective.  I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss a one.

But Easter is not about eggs….and like a time detective, I want to ask you to pull a few files out of your memory bank.

When was the last time you really thought about what Easter really means?  What Jesus really did to set you free?  If you are anything like me, you find yourself going through the busy-ness of life, and even though you pray, do a Bible Study and/or Devotions, you often take the beauty of the price He paid for granted.  I catch myself doing this sometimes.

Today, we went to an Easter party and the youth minister went through the Resurrection Eggs, which tell the story of what the Lord really did for us.

I teared up when I saw little children tell the youth minister what each egg represented.  I also pray for my six year old who says he has made a decision to follow God but has not yet been baptized.  I am so thankful that we did not choose Him, but that He chose us.  All we have to do is accept Him.

May the Lord bless you and yours this Easter!  May you realize that accepting Him is the greatest gift you could ever receive.