Easter Lamb

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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