He is Risen. He isn't here.

Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.(Billy Crystal) . This speaks volumes. If anyone finds it funny they lack the emotional & intellectual acumen. 

Bunnies, eggs, Easter gifts and fluffy, yellow chicks in gardening hats all stem from pagan roots. They weren't written in the bible. 

They were incorporated into the celebration of Easter separately from the Christian tradition of honoring the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

To me the Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with. 

I offer my respect and gratitude to my best friend, Jesus by quoting from the bible: 

Mark 15:29-32

"People walking by insulted him, shaking their heads and saying, ‘Ha! So you were going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, were you? Save yourself and come down from that cross!’”

“In the same way, the chief priests were making fun of him among themselves, together with the legal experts. ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he can’t save himself. Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross. Then we’ll see and believe.’ Even those who had been crucified with Jesus insulted."

LUKE 23:44-47

"It was now about noon, and darkness covered the whole earth until about three o’clock, while the sun stopped shining. Then the curtain in the sanctuary tore down the middle."

"Crying out in a loud voice, Jesus said,

 ‘Father, into your hands I entrust my life.’ 

After he said this, he breathed for the last time. When the centurion saw what happened, he praised God, saying, ‘It’s really true: this man was righteous.

ACTS 3:15

"You killed the author of life, the very one whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this."

JOHN 12:23-25

"The time has come. I assure you that unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it can only be a single seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 

Those who love their lives will lose them, and those who hate their lives in this world will keep them forever."

If you don't understand the deeper meaning of these words, you haven't understood Jesus. 

Thank you, Jesus.