Pork & Beans for Easter?
Easters come
and
Easters go.
Every year is different.
Easter 1977 stands out as a memorable one when my niece Amy, pictured above with me, asked my mom for pork and beans from the Easter Bunny. Although we all knew she meant jelly beans, she insisted that it was pork and beans she wanted. Well, the Easter Bunny, at my mom’s house, followed through and hid a large can of pork and beans just for Amy. Imagine her disappointment! It was short-lived as a real basket with jelly beans showed up, too.
The years of making baskets and hiding eggs for my own kids soon followed and then in the blink of an eye those years were gone, too. And, here we are at Easter56 for me. Working in the church, I’m unable to be with my kids on every holiday. Mailing boxes has become the norm, but I still miss making baskets. So, this year I made a little basket for each of the people who live in my apartment building and put them outside their doors as I left for work. It was too early for any of them to be awake with all the late night Final Four parties yesterday. I put a little Easter message in each basket, and it brought me a lot of joy. I’m just hoping they saw them and did not step on them when they came out their apartment door.
Although every Easter is different, every Easter is the same. One thing that remains constant is that each year we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection again. Belonging to the Lutheran church all these years, every year I sing “Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today.” Every year I feel that same excitement that something wonderful has just happened as I feel God’s love for me and everyone in an empty tomb filled with hope.
Check out these words and be hope-filled and joy-full.
“Christ’s love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first and last word in everything we do. Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.
P.S. Just for fun. Cute greeting card I read: What did the Easter Bunny say as he passed by IHOP?
