Easter

I have 2 favorite times of year, Christmas and Easter. I love Christmas because it reminds us that God sent his most precious gift, his son, as an infant to come save us sinners. Knowing that in 30 short years he would be sacrificed on the cross in a horrible death so that we might be saved from our sins and have eternal life. Easter brings home that sacrifice for me. Several years ago when the movie, Passion of the Christ came out, we went to go see it with some very old friends of ours. I loved that movie but don't know that I could ever sit through it again. It shook me to the core, I wept and wept like I never had before and haven't since. I have grown up seeing many different depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, but none had touched me as deeply as this had. For the first time I saw the Crucifixion and Resurrection from the eyes of Mary, his mother. I was a new mom and had never seen taken that perspective before. I cannot even begin to fathom what Mary was going through watching her child be tortured and die a horrible death on the cross for people she would knew and for billions more she would never know. It makes me so thankful for all of the blessings in my life this Easter and every day and I pray that I will always remember the sacrifice that Christ made for me.