Throwback to Easter 2019
Looking back on years past, Easter has always consisted on new clothes, seeing familiar faces at church, family pictures after church and a big Easter lunch at my parents house followed by an Easter Egg hunt with cousins. There is always the Easter drama with family pictures, curling my daughters hair and getting to church extra early because we are blessed to be in Ministry.
Seeing the Easter shirt hanging in my son's closet this week made me sad. It is the first year that I do not have a new Easter dress. I was sad seeing the grassy area at the lake where no Easter eggs will lay this year and I miss my church family, and I will especially miss worshiping with them on Easter Sunday. Feeling this grief from the unusual Easter season, I had to remind myself that it is okay to grieve from the expectations that I had for Easter 2020.
This Easter is different. With the effects of Covid-19 there was no Easter egg hunt at the lake today, there is no family lunch planned, church will be via Facebook Live, no other Easter outfits were purchased and we will probably be in our pajamas until mid day. Easter has not been canceled. However, this year we shift our focus from the prep of Easter to "Just Jesus".
Jesus is enough. We do not need the extra of egg hunts, new clothes and big family lunches. Jesus can fill every longing in our heart from the longing of normalcy, the broken relationships, financial worries and uncertain future. He is our sufficiency in all times good and bad.
We don't have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all we do. 2 Corinthians 3:5 CEV
What if this Easter, God has taken away all of the extras to lead us back to the cross? He has taken away all of the extras, so that we can focus on the true meaning of Easter....Him!
