Easter is coming and as we prepare our hearts

Easter is coming and as we prepare our hearts, I have a cute little story to share.
When our granddaughter Faith was about 2, we decided she was old enough to help us do the eggs.
Tradition is to boil them, color them, hide them and find them then put them back in the fridge till dinner.
Well, she was ok with some of it kind of humoring her ‘grandma and grandpa’.
We would go through the movements of preparing the eggs.
She was in a darling little dress, and we found her a basket.
We said to her, “let’s go find the eggs outside.”
Grandpa had placed them in pretty easy spots to find.
She questioned us. “Why do I need to go find them I didn’t lose them.”
In her mind, why on earth would you cook eggs and then put them outside once colored.
It does sound a bit silly, but we wanted a fun day for her.
She was a first granddaughter and believe me it was all about making her life easy and fun.
So back to the egg finding, “let’s go get the eggs.”
She said to us again with a firmer tone that a little one can muster up.
(Just in case we didn’t hear her the first time,)
“But I didn’t LOSE them, why do I have to find them?”
We talked her into it finally, she found her basket and said rather loudly, “I am looking everywhere.”
It was a priceless moment this grandma will always remember.
And really it is a silly tradition.
Speaking of tradition.
Easter has always been for family including food and church and small Easter baskets for the kids.
The days of dressing up is long gone now although occasionally I will see the little kids dressed up.
We enter this season of Easter through reflection and as we prepare our hearts we are reminded of the story.
It was not an easy one and after watching some of the ‘chosen show’, the humanity of Jesus was always alongside the Godly side of him.
As we move towards the Easter weekend, I pray our hearts are open to the power and the Prescence and the perfect love that awaits us.
Easter is coming and as we prepare our hearts let us remember and re-visit the story.