Easter 2020 is a Different Kind of Same
April 12, 2020
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Easter celebrations will certainly be different this year as more than 1.5 billion people worldwide have been asked to stay home in order to flatten the curve of the coronavirus.
From the superficial traditions, to the more profound, here’s what most likely will be different:
– Many families may struggle to fill up Easter baskets with candy and dye colored eggs. Egg prices have skyrocketed due to coronavirus panic buying. And “Just Born” candy company who makes PEEPS, has had to shut down their factories in Pennsylvania. Hopefully their attempts to produce and ship all of the chick and bunny shaped candy to retailers ahead of time was successful.
-Easter egg hunts will be shared virtually with grandparents
-Melania Trump canceled the White House Easter Egg Roll
-The Easter bunny had to get creative this year and do “Santa Claus- like -drive-bys” in neighborhoods, whether on fire trucks or Jeeps-while tossing out candy in plastic eggs.
-Churches have had to embrace various ways of worship, through live streaming, while adhering to social distancing guidelines.
-Many families will not gather under one roof. One of my nieces mentioned that in her 35 years of life, this will be the first holiday she did not spend her grandparents (my parents).
However, all that is different this Easter, and all that we cannot do this year, reminds me of what is most critically the same:
Jesus Christ was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected as a needed sacrifice for the sin of mankind. The crucifixion of Jesus was a part of God’s plan from the very beginning of the birth of Jesus. The sinless life of Jesus was lived and given so that man could receive salvation and eternal life in heaven. Oh, how He loves you and me!
1 John 4:9
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
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