Easter

Usually, the first thing i look forward to when the Easter season comes around is mini eggs. I love mini eggs so much that I could eat them as my meals for at least a week straight. I'll eat them as my breakfast, as my snack, as my lunch, as my snack, as my pre supper snack, as my supper, as my dessert, as my midnight snack. Pretty gross, eh? But now you know how much I love these. Unfortunately, I've only had 10 or so of the small bags this time around, but I will wait until Easter is over so they go on sale, then I will unload on them until I get sick beyond my metabolism.

After I get past the mini eggs, I can consider it mission accomplished. However, the second thing that appears most obvious about Easter is the extended weekend that everyone gets. What fun! I love long weekends, and when you get both friday and monday off, BONUS! I don't know any other weekends where you get both friday and monday off, so that is just awesome. What makes this weekend even more awesome is that it usually comes around the time of Spring Break, so the time off during Easter weekend can cover for the negativity towards school that Spring Break instills in you. Whoa whoa whoa, wait! I'm in post-secondary now, and Spring Break and Easter weekends don't amount to anything anymore, dang. Well, I guess it's time to move on.

Then, finally we arrive at the reason for Easter; the time we remember Jesus for dying on the cross. If this never happened, we would never be celebrating Easter in the first place, so why did this appeal to us last about Easter? I'll be the first to admit that I often look past the whole "dying on the cross to save our lives" thing because I've grown up hearing it, I've drowned in this information, but when you really think about it, you're only alive today because of this happening. If you are one to be lucky enough to be hearing about this time of year, you should be SO thankful that you are blessed enough to know it. And this is just kind of my thing, but the Easter weekend is the one weekend where I believe you should take off completely. From Friday morning to Sunday (Monday for some) night, it should be a time of reflection and worship; no work whatsoever. For me, it works just like the Sabbath day, if you have work that needs to be completed for the start of the next week, finish it earlier. Then you'll really come to appreciate this whole Easter business.

So here it is, thank you Jesus for giving me a chance, even though I don't deserve it.