memories about easter and holy week

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My favorite memories about Easter and Holy Week
 
One:  As a child, all I can remember is dressing up, getting a new outfit, getting my hair done, dying eggs and eating lots of candy.  That was the life and I wish I can go back.  Those of you who don’t know, I grew up in a single-parent household and my mom had to work hard to take care of us so she didn’t really have time to tell us everything but she did teach us about Jesus and the importance of love by her actions.  So I consider that being good teaching because she showed us rather than telling us the meaning of Easter and Holy week.
 
Two: as I got older, that’s when the real meaning came into play.  (The struggles) You know we all have problems and we’re on this journey trying our best to make it and sometimes it’s tough depending on the situation and what I’ve learned about Easter and Holy week is life is not about us, it’s not about material things, it’s not about titles but more about what we’re doing, how we’re allowing God to work in our lives and how we’re giving hope to the world.
 
During my journey, I have encountered many things in my life that I didn’t understand and I thought I wasn’t able to make it through but I’ve learned that Jesus is Love, Jesus forgives and Jesus gives us peace so as an adult during this time I have an opportunity to refresh my relationship with him, remind myself to let go and let God and to begin again with his love. That takes faith and knowing the true meaning of His sacrifice.
 
I’ve learned that God does miracles every day in our lives by allowing us to still be here, by allowing us to share in his glory and by loving us unconditionally.  I’m 52 years old I think oh I stop counting but the bottom line is we don’t have much time here and we don’t know what tomorrow may bring - my dad passed at the age of 36 and I’ve already lived about 20 years pass him so you see it’s important that we understand our mission, our purpose and the call to give hope, be humble and have faith in our LORD.
So Easter and Holy week to me are a blessing from God and a second chance to live and every time I think about my problems, I think about what he did for me and for us.  My problems don’t even come close to his sacrifice.  When we learn the importance of his Divine Mercy, we’re able to begin to live with peace and joy.  That’s very important to me because life is not all good all the time and when we know of his love, we’re able to get through tough times because he has a plan for all of us.
 
Finally, I ask all of you to pray for my mother doing this time because she’s dealing with lung cancer and actually pray for the entire family.  In life, we all need strength when we’re in the storm and at the same time, let’s pray for each other that God helps us to find peace on our journey and through this Coronavirus Pandemic know that it’s all in the palm of His hands.  Let’s not lose the faith but know that during this time, we can still win when we work together as one Body of Christ and trust in our Lord.  God has helped me not to worry about what happened yesterday and see what’s in front of me today. 
 
Amen and Amen.