How Do You Celebrate Easter?

I don't know when Easter weekend starts for you, but this Friday is "Good Friday" of Easter and the regular start for the whole Easter weekend for me - and for most Christians, no matter what country they are in.

From my earliest childhood memories our family went to church on Good Friday morning to hear the story of Jesus dying for our sins on the cross. We sang hymns about it then.

Sometimes His resurrection was also mentioned but at most times that was delayed until the Easter Sunday morning - that's when we'd celebrate Jesus' Resurrection!

Besides the church celebrations, there was also the big family gatherings at my grandparents' gray farmhouse. Relatives who could get off an extra day or so from their jobs would drive in - sometimes from other provinces - and stay at our grandparents' home and sometimes our school-age cousins would sleep at our house! Oh what fun to have visitors!

The adults and their babies would stay at our grand- parents' house - just a brisk run through the pasture from our house.

Oh what fun to have visitors! Especially, if they could stay an extra day or two! We considered it an honour to have a cousin share a bed with us!

If winter had not quite departed for good, we might stomp around in the snow and puddles in our boots. ...But if spring had already arrived, we'd go for bigger, longer walks, exploring in the pasture and checking on the cattle grazing in the fresh green grass.

We asked questions, told riddles and jokes and had a great time that blurred in our memory later when we wanted to tell someone else about all we did.

The edges of our memories grow fuzzy with time but it is amazing how such holiday memories stay with us for many decades!

I'm guessing you have some great Easter memories as well, don't you? Want to talk about them?.

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