Easter Musings

My Easter was a wonderful day. This was Olivia's first Easter to be aware of what's going on. It was so exciting to get her dressed in her pretty new dress, give her the Easter basket I had put together, watch her try to figure out what the big deal is about these eggs we were all telling her to put in her basket and then try to keep her from eating too much candy that her two grandmothers gave her. She ate more candy in one day yesterday than she has in the rest of her entire short life.

Then, today as I was walking to work, I passed the Catholic cathedral that I have to walk past to get from where I park to the building where I work. Very often when I pass that cathedral on my three block walk into work, it reminds me to make a quick connection with God before I start my day, if I haven't already. This morning, the cathedral reminded me that with all the excitement of seeing Olivia at her first "real" Easter, I hadn't stopped to make a true heartfelt expression of thanks to Jesus for what He did for us on Good Friday. The guilt hit hard: How horrible of me!

If you're a church-going parent of a toddler, or if you have ever been such a parent, you know that often times you don't get a lot out of the service; you're entire time is spent corralling your child and trying to keep them from distracting every single person in the sanctuary. (My goal is to just distract the twenty or so people who sit near us. I consider that a good Sunday.) That's what my day was like yesterday at church, so even during service I didn't really connect spiritually with what Easter really is.

So on my walk into work this morning, I prayed a short but sincere prayer. Thank you, Jesus, for what you did. Thank you for taking on my sins. Thank you for the suffering you endured on my behalf. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I'm sorry for being so wrapped up in Olivia's reaction to some stupid Easter eggs that I didn't stop to say this before. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

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