Easter Dresses

I will never forget the moment and it still melts me even in memory.

One Easter Sunday morning many years ago, my daughters were getting ready for church in their beautiful, new Easter dresses. They curled their hair and painted their toes, and those simple acts of preparation spoke to me on a level that was deeper than my natural love for my girls–it stirred something eternal in me.

Captured in their youthful freshness and beauty, was the essence of Easter Sunday.

Easter is about the death and resurrection of hope. It is about clean slates, new beginnings, and parties being planned in heaven. It is about the stain of our past finally being purged, and Jesus emerging from a borrowed grave to drop kick the devil, the enemy of our souls. It is about the beginning of the end for sin, sorrow, suffering, and disease. And it is about the holiness of a pretty Easter dress draped around innocence and trust.

Think new thoughts this Easter season. Think bigger than you have before. Jesus loves you personally and He has reserved both a work for you to do on earth and an eternal place beside Him in heaven.

I pray that this Easter would be everything for you that God intended it to be.