Oh, Easter

Easter weekend should, without a doubt, be the biggest weekend in Christianity. I'm afraid that in America Christmas and the materialism that comes along with it has overshadowed Easter. Nonetheless, it's huge. People are somehow drawn to the spiritual nature within and around each of us like they are not through the rest of the year. People make their yearly pilgrimage to a local church...hopefully to open arms and hearts and to hear a message of sorrow, hope, joy, humility, generosity, loneliness, power, meekness, etc.

As a pastor, Easter is a huge weight of programming, planning, prayer, anticipation, stress, and so forth. The amount of hours that are invested in the Easter Egg Hunt -and- the Easter Celebration Service are beyond belief. It is, however, a great joy to see the light in people's eyes, to see people touched/transformed/saved, and to see families have hope again.

Maybe we don't give Easter enough attention, maybe we do. But no matter what, if it recalibrates our spirits to line up with our Redeemer's once again, then it was worth it all.