Thursday, March 20, 2008
Help Me Out Here.
Tomorrow is Good Friday. I take the whole Easter season fairly seriously. I find it easier to swallow the commercialism at Christmas than at Easter. I do think that we absolutely need to be talking about the message of Easter year round with our children, but I like to make a special point of it at this time of year. I have always wanted to try the Resurrection eggs- this year I have gotten as far as buying the plastic eggs, but haven't put anything in them. Right at this moment, I am tired and overwhelmed and counting the hours until I can put all the kids to bed, so I am eating their Easter chocolate to keep myself going! Anyone have any great traditions to share about how they keep the Gospel story a focal point at Easter without taking all the fun of the egg hunt away? Anyone have any more chocolate for me to stuff into my cake hole?
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Hi,this is Oldfolk.the jelly bean man........you are very welcome for the jelly bean prayer.Someone sent it to me and I thought it would be nice to post.Glad it fits your need.
Have a colorful Easter.
God Bless.
We have the resurrection eggs...but I can't say that they're a tradition. The kids just want to play with the stuff inside them.
We read good resurrection books - and this year we're going to do a study on the Passover with our church. It should be interesting.
And I just bought some chocolate. I'll be most happy to share with you.
When I was a kid, I just remembered, we didn't call it Easter. we called it "Resurrection Sunday" - and I still like that. because without that Resurrection power, we're pretty nothing.
I was googling a recipe for resurrection cookies and found this blog. http://www.hayesfamily.co.za/blog/?cat=26
She has lots of Easter tradtions you might want to check out.
Today we read the story of Passover, which was quite timely as we recently read about it in Story of the World, so the boys knew it all anyway.
I'm all in favour of the Easter Bunny and the chocolate as long as that's not the main focus. What gets me are all the new-ish tv and movie marketing tie-ins. Today I saw chocolate monster trucks, Spiderman, SpongeBob and Madagascar 'Easter" treats. How does that relate to Easter? Certainly not through Jesus and not the Easter Bunny (unless maybe Bunny rides to your house on a chocolate monster truck...)
My thoughts on all this are.....
We are losing site of what made this a great country.In God We Trust..All the meaning about CHRISTMAS and EASTER,is lost in the cmmercials of to-day,it has all become a MONEY thing.
God bless.
We don't even do eggs at Easter. My husband's idea - I'm ok with it, but he is definitely not. Our kids don't mind though! We start celebrating the Resurrection at the beginning of Lent. My husband made a cross with hooks on it. Every night (supposedly, we don't get to it every night), we read a verse and hang it on the cross (the verses all have to do with a "name" for Jesus). Palm Sunday we have a donkey that we set out. Tonight we will put the lamb that has been on the top of the cross in our "tomb". Sunday morning it will come out.
I really should take some pics and blog about this. It's actually quite cool.
I found Resurrection Eggs at my local Christian bookstore, already assembled! Yesss!
This year "E.B." is leaving behind religious t-shirts and foam doorknob hangers that they can decorate w/ crosses and other religious foamy things. I'm not even doing candy! (My daughter recently had 7 cavities filled, so I'm not feeling the love for chocolate rabbits.)
My kids are 4 and 3. We talk about how Easter relates to Jesus dying on the cross and then going to be in heaven, and that He did that for us because He loves us so much. We also talk about how baby bunnies and chicks are new life, and it's just like how we have new lives when we love Jesus, or something like that. It's hard to make deep theology simple and clear for toddlers.
Looks like you have gotten some good sources.
We have done the cookies.
I have the recipe and if you do them with the kids each step stands something having to do with Resurrection Sunday.
We don't do candy or eggs-my parents did not either.
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