Comments on: All Talk

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:45:33 +0000

OH!!! I like what you said about the colors of easter…Tara that’s awesome.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:14:02 +0000

@BigKat Great answer, Katsuda, thank you!

By: BigKat

BigKat — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:06:08 +0000

I don’t mind Easter bunnies and Santa Clause’s and that sort of thing too much. As a parent, it’s my job to prepare my children to live in the world on their own someday. And there are a lot of people in the world that don’t understand the real significance of Easter and Christmas.
So the Easter bunnies and Santa Clause’s give me a good excuse to talk about those things with them.

I like the idea of dressing up at Easter though. One thing I stress to my Sunday school class is that Easter is the Most Important day of the Christian year. Jesus dying on the Cross and rising again is what the entire Bible is all about. So dressing up to celebrate the most important event to have ever occurred is ok by me. (Plus the kids always look so cute in their fancy clothes!)

But I think the main reason why I don’t worry so much about the Easter bunny and egg hunts and stuff like that is because we try and teach them about the true significance of Easter EVERY day. Anytime, I do a Bible lesson, either at home or at church, it’s all tied to the Cross. No matter what the story is, we talk about its place in the Bible and how it relates to God’s nature or His plan of salvation. So understanding the significance of the Easter holiday becomes really easy.

‘Why’s Easter the most important holiday? Because it celebrates the most important part of the Bible. You know that thing we talk about every single day? That’s why…Now go put on your fancy vest!’

Christmas though…we’ve had to take more drastic measures with Christmas…

By: Macie

Macie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:28:32 +0000

Tara, you may find this interesting. In Moldova, nobody says “Pashte Fericita”, which translates to Happy Easter. Instead, starting on Easter and for the following 40 days, when you greet someone you say “Hristos a inviat”, Christ is risen. The response is always “Adeverat, a inviat”, True, He is risen.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:49:16 +0000

The Easter Bunny freaks me out too! In the past we’ve done the basket thingy, but obviously with a toddler guess who the candy is for? This year it was one chocolate bunny. Probably won’t be anything next year. Who knows. But the funny thing is, we’ve been very intentional with L this year about how Santa is pretend along with the Easter Bunny. But she doesn’t believe us! She most definately things Santa is real!! We just sit and shake our heads.

By: JanMary, N Ireland

JanMary, N Ireland — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:44:11 +0000

We don’t have Easter buuny, baskets or even new clothes for Easter here in N Ireland. Well – a few do, and the shops are certainly pushing it, but now many do.

We do have a few chocolate eggs, and roll hard boiled eggs down a hill.

I much prefer the idea of Resurrection Sunday – will try to start to use that.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:50:21 +0000

Easter was probably merged with some celebration of Spring, which explains the pastels and the bunnies, etc… Just like Christmas was merged with the Winter Solstice.

We sort of do the bunny. The kids get baskets of goodies from the bunny, but we seldom bother with seeing the bunny at the mall or anything. I read them Bible stories Thurs/Fri and Sat night to explain what everything was about, and I washed their feet. Corey also washed my feet and David’s at church. Haydn opted out.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:23:47 +0000

We don’t do the Easter bunny, although we have egg hunts and it was fun to dress Lucy up. We also don’t do Santa Claus, and our families just don’t understand why not? “What’s the harm???” they always ask. Well, we did do Santa and the Easter Bunny w/Ethan, and there came a year when he couldn’t tell us what the holidays were actually about – not even close – yet he could tell us all about Santa and presents and a big bunny who leaves plastic candy-filled eggs… and that was the end of that! We haven’t looked back, and now I also cringe when I see the bunnies and Santas.

Anyways, just wanted to say that, on this matter, I agree!