Easter 2014

Happy Easter! We had a wonderful day celebrating the risen Savior. It was the quietest Easter we've spent in the last 6 years, not having a young families party to host or attend. It was also the coldest - it only got up to about 55 today!

Easter weekend started out on Good Friday with a wonderful conversation with the children. We were talking about Good Friday in the car. Emma wanted to know why Jesus had to die for our sins. Will said, "so we can go to heaven." We talked about how we alone will always sin and never be good enough to go to heaven, so Christ came to pay for all our sins by living a perfect life and sacrificing himself. Emma said, "and so God can live in our hears, right? I want Jesus in my heart." I said yes, the Holy Spirit lives inside you if you ask Jesus to forgive your sins and be your Savior. She said, "I want that, I want him to save me." So we prayed together, right there in the car. It was a wonderful, sweet moment.

After church, we did our little Easter egg hunt at home. I printed out verses with pictures for each section, and cut them into pieces for each egg. So the kids had to find all the parts and put them together to make 3 verses "For God so loved the world...", "He is not here, He is risen," and "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (the first is Will's favorite verse, and the last is one of Emma's two favorite verses). They had a lot of fun finding the eggs, and opening them to find the verse clues and also some candy and coins.