Some of you gobble up chocolate bunnies for Easter. I know you do! Usually for Thanksgiving we have turkey and for Easter – a crown roast of lamb, (if you’re not vegan of course)! How in the world did this choice of food get chosen for the Easter Holidays and Passover season?
I love this picture. A perfect little lamb is a fitting symbol for the rebirth of spring. When a lamb is born, it is such a symbol of innocence and purity. And so it must have seemed to the prophet, John the Baptist when he first saw the stranger named Jesus Christ approaching him to be baptized in the Jordan River. “Look, the Lamb of God” (John 1:35), he exclaimed.
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I’ve walked this way so many times. Yet new graffiti pops up on the side of the building telling me that Jesus Saves. And I think to myself, yes well, what did Jesus save us from? 
Why do we cry at funerals? They’ve gone into the light and don’t feel any pain anymore, while we weep for our loss and the regrets of what could have been. But life unfolds itself as sure as the ocean waves keep rolling in… 
Some of you LOVE to eat chocolate bunnies for Easter. I know you do! Usually, we prepare the platter of turkey for Thanksgiving, and the rack of lamb to celebrate Easter (if you’re not vegan of course). How in the world did this choice of food source get chosen for the Easter holidays and the Passover season?
