Merry Easter

Shalom! It's funny, this year is the only ever year of my life thus far where I have worked for a church, and yet this year I feel like Easter crept up on me more than any other. You would think, being in the resurrection business and all that, I would have been more prepared. But no. Maybe I'm just out of the loop but I just feel like more than other recent years it's been less of a hype. I was trying to work out today whether a) this is true or false, b) whether it's just because I'm not 4 and my parents don't feel the need to dress up as large chocolate bearing animals or c) whether it just reflects people generally being a bit distracted with life. I didn't conclude upon any of these points (well, apart from b, which I think is definitly true) but it did make me realise that it's pretty cool that however much I might be an eventist and not having an egg hunt round my garden and a bonnet making contest and a stations of the cross and 15 gamillion creme eggs might make me slightly dissappointed it's also pretty cool that every day is kind of Easter Day. Not just because Esther brings home hot cross buns on a daily basis, but because Jesus is the reason for the season. And He is risen. Not just today, but tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow's tomorrow. And, despite the whole Good Friday thing, even yesterday and yesterday's yesterday. Yesterday, today, forevermore. That's pretty cool. Even if they don't give you chocolate on Cathedral Green every day to remember it by.

So..what else. We had fun in France visiting Ross. There's a fairly select(elite?) group in the UK that recognise his coolness, but I feel like the whole of France is Ross keen. This obviously makes me want to start the official backlash, but we had a good time eating and drinking Frenchstyle, pottering around, having balloon animals made etc etc. It was a good break in the way that I felt in the middle of it refreshed and like I was having a good time, but also like I would quite like to go home and get on with that life too. Generally made me feel excited by things again.

The Simple Life is offically done as of this morning and the ending of Lent. I'm not quite what I would conclude from it. I think I thought it would be easier than it was. Not that I found myself having to be pulled off of H and M window fronts or owt, but just I really wanted stuff. And not in the, "Oh dear my flip flops are falling apart" type way (which they are), but in the most ugly, covetous, "Ooh my life would be so much better if I just had more....stuff" type way. Doing the charidee shop thing quite a lot I think I thought that maybe I might be above all that material greed thing, but, I realised, I'm not at all. I'm not sure what that means now though. I definately learned I don't need to buy packaged sandwiches, and that's a good thing I can continue not doing, but I do want to continue to muse upon the needing stuff thing.

Right, I was supposed to be getting down with the parents and watching Lewis but I have failed miserably by writing this instead, so I should drop in for the last few minutes. Merry Easter everyone...