Wow it is Sat night of Easter weekend ...family's will be coloring eggs (miss those days I truly do!!) Moms will be bathing the kids ,ironing and setting out those nice new crisp Easter clothes...and after the little ones are in bed moms and dads...ok well moms arrange the Easter baskets filling them with Candy and toys and that crinkly green cellophane grass,,,,
But go back- back to that first Easter...and to the thoughts and fears of those who loved and believed in Jesus...we know Thomas had to have his doubts as to if Jesus was going to Rise on Sunday from the dead ....but what about Peter and John the beloved...and Mary oh my heart as a mother breaks for her and what she saw on Fri,... her beautiful boy Gods son tortured and killed in such a way and SHE knew He was Gods son but surly even she had a doubt or a touch of fear of what would REALLY happen on Sunday the 3rd day....the hope ever alive that her Son would be whole again.,. not tattered and torn and bloody as she saw him last.
So tonight as you try and scrub those little hands free of egg dye ( oh come on all kids need purple and blue fingers on Easter!) And as you sneak a piece of chocolate or two from the basket,....think on what it was like on the other side of Easter morning the other side of the resurrection as they waited in sorrow at what went before them on Fri-- to what is awaited on Sun... If Friday is colored Black and Sunday is colored white then surly Sat is the color of grey for waiting and suspense and sadness and hope ....
Happy Easter -- He is Risen indeed!~!
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