"Chicks, Ducks, & Bunnies"

Easter is coming up this weekend and it has come quick. I have been thinking about Easter the past day or two and what it means. Superficially some thoughts have included the idea of Spring and all that comes with Spring. Things like flowers, warmer weather, bright sunny days with a cool breeze, longer day time hours, color coming back to the trees and vegetation. Also, other things have come to mind like the idea of new life. Spring is a time when the animals have babies and eggs are being hatched. Spring seems so fresh and new opportunity appear to be more abundant. Spring brings hope. I am not sure what about Spring that brings hope, but it almost seems as those it is in the air. I had the door open the other day and let the air come into our home. It was refreshing and it brought a new atmosphere to our house...Hope. It is interesting that God has guided us to celebrate Easter in the Spring. I don't know how it all came about or why we do it in Spring or even if it chronologically lines up with the actual resurrection of Jesus, but I do know as Spring brings new life, so does Jesus. In fact, that is exactly what Jesus did for us, to those who trust in His name and confess with our lips that Christ is God, He gave us a brand new life. The bible teaches us that the old is gone and the new has come. "You used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived" Did you get that? The life you ONCE lived signifying that there must have been a change. You now operate in a NEW way. That new way is a new life through Jesus. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through me". So this weekend we celebrate the actual event where Jesus physically made it possible for us to come to GOD. Do you hear that? Jesus paid a very real, historically accurate, physical death, burial, and Resurrection that made it possible for you and I to come to the Father, our Creator. So...Easter, really celebrates the one event that sets Christianity apart from all other religions; the Resurrection, the conquering of sin and death, the triumph of life over death, and the Hope. Do you have Hope this Easter? My resolution for this Easter? Finding my Hope in the Resurrection of Jesus, and re-discovering my New Life, as I have so flippantly let it go to the way side.

Does anyone know what I got my title from? I know Kirstin will know.