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Easter Blahs

April

Do you have the ‘after Easter blahs’? It’s something like the ‘after Christmas blahs’!
After Christmas, the seed companies send out their catalogs to tantalize you into
thinking about Spring and all the seeds you can plant that will miraculously grow into
gorgeous, flower laden plants, and nutritious pod, and leaf vegetables.
Stuck in the house via freezing, icy weather, magazine companies entice you with
articles about how you can become wealthy, and tell you how to get thin in one week.
A worldly Easter can also create ‘the blahs’. Lent begins the process. In the next 40
days, instead of buying Christmas gifts, we buy Easter outfits and goodies to fill
children’s Easter baskets. Then the guessing game starts. Are the parents cooking this
year or will the younger generation take over the preparations. What to cook? Last year
the family said they were tired of ham. Should we have roasted lamb like Emeril
prepared on TV? Or maybe we should have a quick and easy Easter brunch as Rachael
Ray suggested so that we can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with the
family and friends! What will we talk about? Politics are out!
Conversation is always a problem since the best dinner party can be spoiled as a guest
tells in detail about the ghastly accident they saw, or about the 4.0 GPA freshman and his
not so sane roommate who was a cutter, got married, and moved his wife and dog into the
dorm.
But, by and by, the Easter egg hunt fades from our memory.
The crammed Easter baskets have been distributed.
The dinner is behind us and the house is unkempt.
We feel something is missing and we get the blahs!
So, let’s replace the worldly process and take on the holy meaning of Easter. Let’s
begin with Ash Wednesday when the pastor puts the sign of a cross on your forehead to
symbolize that you belong to Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for you. Let’s spend the
next forty days in prayer, repentance, and thankfulness for all that Jesus did and does for
us on a daily basis. The Resurrection is just as special today as the day it happened.
Jonathan Emerson-Pierce says,
“Jesus wept with those He loved, and He still does.
Jesus raised people up, and He still does.
Jesus included others in the healing process, and He still does.”
Let Easter transform you. It’s not about your performance, it’s about your being
transformed. As John Bishop said, “God's main purpose is not to get us somewhere-- but
to make something of us on the way….
Remember that God is seeking to develop your soul by your experiences….
It’s not getting somewhere or finding something on which we have set our hearts that
matters: It’s what we become on the way that counts.”
Easter blahs are worldly, not holy.
The blahs are saying, “What about me?
Easter is saying it’s all about God!”