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Easter A to Z

Before I got past my biases of what Easter was about, it was just another holiday where I got to eat all my kids leftover chocolate. Now, I still dip into the chocolate, but I have a renewed way of looking at it.  I now have a new language for Easter. 

Before I got past my biases of what Easter was about, it was just another holiday where I got to eat all my kids leftover chocolate. Now, I still dip into the chocolate, but I have a renewed way of looking at it.  I now have a new language for Easter.

Before I knew Him

Easter was…

Allegory and ads

Baskets and bunnies

Cadbury and caramel

Dinners and doilies

Easter was…

Easily effortless

Frivolously fantastic

Garishly gilded

Heavily homogenized

Impotently Impish

Justifiably juvenile

Easter was…

Ken dolls and kicks

Lavender and lilacs

Mushy and meek

Nonsense and nibbling

Now that I’ve met Him

Easter is:

Overwhelmingly oxygenating

Powerfully praiseworthy

Quintessentially quest-worthy

Reliably restoring

Sensationally saving

Tremendously Triune

Easter is:

Underestimated and urgent

Victorious and voluminous

Wonderful and winning

‘X-hilarating and ‘x-citing

Yearnful and youth-giving

Zealot-led Zeitgeist

Easter is:

what God did for us on a cross

it is the renewal of ALL things

A to Z

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These times are tugging on all of us. I can’t stop thinking that if this happened 15 or 20 years ago I would not have had any faith to rely on. I can’t imagine how much less peace I would have right now and how differently focused and tormented I would be. I literally can no longer imagine it. It is like a faded photograph, or more accurately, a memory that I just can’t make out anymore. I see the world through a wholly different lens now and that doesn’t mean I’m always calm or perfectly at peace it just means there is a persistent Hope that pervades my being and that I see in so many of the people and acts of service going on around me that I was mostly blind to once before. That kind of Hope comes from Jesus and every day I am thankful that I got to know Him and stopped trying to do this crazy thing called life on my own. If you don’t know Him or have previously dismissed Him, consider looking for some folks that seem to live, at least a little bit, like what you’ve heard He is supposed to be like and check it out, you’ll find fellow imperfect people, but you will also find something so much more perfect than you could ever imagine. Careful: it may change your life forever.

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By J Johnson

I am seeking to discover, find and share salt and light into the world. After growing up in financial poverty, but with a wealth of loving people lifting me up all along the way, I struggled for a good while to "do it all on my own." Until I finally found something indescribable in a mere "about me" section of a blog. Now I have the peace that discovery provides as well as the overwhelming urge to share everything I can with as many as I can. I am now trying to use those life experiences, my formal and informal education, and my over 25 years of human resources and leadership experience to have a broader conversation with the world about that something, that Light, and about Love and Leadership...with a dose of Laughter along the way. 4 Ls to Live by and to Soar by: Four for Soaring.

2 replies on “Easter A to Z”

Very clever.
Easter for me is usually confusing, in that I never know when it is.
That doesn’t matter though, as it is usually raining anyway.
Thanks for following my blog.
Best wishes, Pete.

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