Christ is Risen indeed!

The Easter season is really a special one. The preparation (starting 6 weeks out with Ash Wednesday and Lent) lasts longer than the Advent before Christmas, but in this part of the world one wouldn't necessarily know that.

Remembering back to my Christian Foundations class at Fox, the Western church emphasizes Christ's birth, and the Eastern church His death. I wonder if the Christians in Greece, Russia, Turkey, and other reaches of the Eastern Orthodox Church go as all-out for Easter as we go for Christmas... (hopefully without all the commercializing)

Although we have special programs and services for Lent, Palm Sunday, and Good Friday, do we really get into the "Easter spirit" until right as it's happening? Christ's death and resurrection are paramount - arguably the most important events in Christian and human history.

It's important to revisit... to be reminded... to consider well what Christ has done.
It hurts... it heals... it humbles... it evokes worship - and unspeakable gratitude.

How then shall I live? How then must I live?

Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia.