Today we Celebrate Easter

Holidays are just different when you are a single adult living away from your family. Today is Easter, the last place that I want to be is at church. Everyone dressed to the T's. Families are abundant and apparent with all the cute couple and family pictures being taken. Being in that setting is just one big fat reminder that I don't fit into that world.
I feel like I have offended lots of people, feel like many are worried about my faith, but I am not going to church today. Instead, I am going to stay home.

When you take away your family, when you don't have a husband and kids that you need to coordinate the perfect Sunday outfit with, when you have nothing of the traditional sense to celebrate Easter; it makes you focus on the real reason for the holiday.

This past week, I have started to think about the significance of Jesus dying on the cross. And have I have been thinking about His resurrection. And if Jesus never resurrected, would His dying on the cross have any effect on our salvation?
They are always tied together. Together everything is amazing. But thinking and looking at each piece separately has been my theme and thought for Easter this year. To reflect on how each of the moving parts of our salvation is meaningful. And what does that part truly means just on its own?

I just discovered this book, "Behold the King of Glory " and I wished that I had it at the start of Lent. I think I am going to get it for next year, as well as this advent book "Behold the Lamb of God " by the same author, Russ Ramsey.

Just reading little pieces of it from the book preview makes me think about Jesus in a different way. I believe it is so good to look and see how Jesus saves and what the various moving pieces of the days moving towards works into our salvation.

I love #Shereadstruth. I am not very good at reading it every day, but when I do read, it often is very impactful to my life. I have been reading along this week some, and it is amazing.

I don't know about you, but if you are like me, without the Easter traditions and family around you this weekend, Remember that is not what we are celebrating, and that you can be alone and soak up the significances of Jesus on your own. Jesus saving us is the important part; not how we look or who we spend our day with or how our social media accounts look.