Yesterday began the week long serial known in the church as Holy week...a week where we are building up an amazing story line with twists and turns all the way, celebrations, jubilation, cheering, processions, meals with friends, meditation in gardens, arrests, trials, torture, crucifixion, death, heart break, heart ache, confusion, despair, amazement, confusion, awe-ness and RESURRECTION!
Sounds to me like a week in soap land...a story line planned, advertised, rehearsed and looked forward to for months on end.
But htis is not made up script, this isn't a televised story plot rehearsd and played out by actors this is reality, this is true, this is the true events of Holy Week.
On Saturday I had the real pleasure of sharing the Easter story with 29 children aged 3-15 at our Kidschurch based in Chattenden ...the children through fun, games, film and an Easter egg hunt unravelled the story of what Jesus experienced that first Holy week/ Easter day. just watching their faces, listening to their questions and explanations and hearing my own son ( aged 3) retelling my parents the story bit by bit was spine tinglingly awesome.
For this is a life changing account. We can so easily get lost in the bunnies, chicks, eggs of Easter but forget why we are celebrating anything at all. Easter is even more commercial than Christmas at least you can find a Nativity scene at Christmas in the shops, at Easter there is nothing that resembles the true meaning of Easter.
Easter is a great time to celebrate Spring ( what a joke with the weather we are having!) It's a great time to spend with family, it's a great opportunity for fun. But ultimately it is a time to think about our lives and to fully appreciate them.
A wise person once said that if we were the only person left ont eh planet Jesus would still have suffered on that cross just for us...
this week I shall be sharing the story with toddlers , experiencing the last supper with adults, being cre8ive with families on Good Friday and helping to clean up Hoo village on Saturday but what am I looking forward ot most..I am getting up at 5am ( really 4am with clock changes) to lead 30+ people in welcoming the risen Son..I wouldn't be doing that if I didnt believe it was something true to be celebrating!!
Have a blessed Easter however/whatever you will be doing xx
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