Refreshing Easter!
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Everybody, Happy Easter! Easter is a very good break as since Christmas it seems that there has not been such a relaxing vacation, at least for me that is the case. It is really so great to have a nice little break from tonnes of work and to enjoy a few days without stress. I am loving Easter! But does Easter only serve as a relaxation?
I bet many people know at least a little bit about the history of Easter. God sent his son Jesus Christ to the world as human’s savior from sins. Jesus devoted himself to save human beings through his death and rebirth in Easter. In Spain during Easter, people say “Feliz Semana Santa!” to wish others a happy Easter. “Feliz” means happy, “Semana” means “week” and “Santa” means “Saints” in Spanish. Easter holiday lasts for 3-4 days but the Spanish people are in the mood of celebrating Easter for a week! The Spanish people must be very good at making themselves feeling ecstatic, they like to ‘prolong’ their holiday mood! (but poor them that their holiday is still that short) But apart from enjoying our holiday and decorating Easter eggs, what do these do to us if we are not Christians?
What Jesus brought with us during his advent and rebirth and until now is rejoice, blessings and to forgive. Easter is the best period for us to avoid making further mistakes by reflecting the passed us and to give ourselves a rebirth by learning how to forgive those who hace acted as devils to us.
Even non-Christians can fill the blessings Easter brings to us. Easter let us feel peaceful, with love and harmonious. We can feel all these whenever we do self-reflection and remiss those we dislike. Through all these acts we can better understand ourselves and not to suffer from hatred again anymore.
Every time we accept our mistakes and try to do better, we improve ourselves by a great deal; every time we accept our enemies and try to forget our hatred towards them, we feel relieved by a whole lot.
Easter is a festival full of love and greetings. So for Christians, please keep on appreciating God’s love! For non-Christians, what more to do in your beautiful Easter?
We should share the blessings with our friends and relatives, by whatever methods you like, giving decorated Easter eggs, sending emails and very well-designed Pencake ecards to show our love towards our beloved ones.
Enjoy your Easter, hang out with friends and have party times! Then have a sweet dream! And after that? Kick away all your mistakes and hatred away from your mind and be a new you after Easter! Feliz Semana Santa!