Time For Easter
If we’re being honest… maybe Easter comes at an inconvenient time.
Maybe we’re feeling that final push to finish school for the semester. Maybe we’re thinking about our taxes or planning our summers. Maybe the letup of rainfall beckons us to finally finish that backyard project.
Maybe it’s not convenient, right now, to stop. To rest. To soak in and let sink in what He really did.
But you reminded me. When you sat down and picked up our new little book. You, with your golden curls and your bright blue eyes. You, who sees everything, who takes it all in.
And you didn’t just look at the book. You sat with it. You felt every page. With its touchable, soft lambs and golden-y flowers. With the pages that overlap each other, till we found the golden Cross at the end. This book that was designed for every learning style, for every child.
And you reminded me to linger. If the story seems simple… then maybe I need to sit with it a little longer. I need to sit with it until the picture of Jesus, freshly risen from the grave and holding children on His lap, no longer feels like a familiar image… till it feels like the uncomfortable, inconvenient, miracle it was… the miracle that rocked the world.
So this week, we’ll put aside as many of our to-dos as we can. Yes, there’s much to do… but maybe some of it can be done imperfectly, and we’ll make time and space to quiet our hearts. We’ll hang the verses on our Easter tree and talk about what they mean. We’ll sit and snuggle and read our books, including this special little board book, the one that reminds us: “Easter comes when winter ends, when everything seems new”.
New. A New Spring, a New Life, given to us.
Clinging to His feet, the ones that were nailed to the Cross, for you, for me,
Laura
Friends, if you’re looking for a gift for a special little one this Easter, I can highly recommend “Tell Me About Easter,” recently released by B&H Publishing Group. It’s available for purchase here.
Happy Easter, friends.