Easter Thoughts

I thought I would write some memories from this Easter Weekend. Saturday night we dyed Easter eggs at Grandma's. I took a photo of Kai's egg in the red dye and it reminded me of blood. Later on that night, Jason and I were talking about the Atonement and Resurrection and the symbols of Easter. I indicated that maybe we dye them as to symbolize our bodies being born (perfectly clean...white like an egg) and as we live our lives we have to go through a refiners fire (boiling the eggs to become solid) and then as we get old and have many aging spots and cracks (dyeing the eggs-sometimes in red dye and getting cracks here and there) we then die. After we die we will eventually be resurrected and given a new body that is perfect (cracking open the egg and seeing a hard boiled egg that is white and perfect and clean again, but this time it is solid/whole and won't break like the white outer shell). Just a thought.

Another thought that came to my mind was the fact that Easter came so quickly upon us. I wasn't at all ready for it. Since our front room has been under construction I didn't get any Easter out till the night before. I was totally unprepared and procrastinated till the last minute. Having done this made me think of the Second Coming of Christ. Will I be ready? Am I procrastinating? This Easter "sprung" upon me so quickly...just like the Second Coming...it too could come any time whether I am ready or not...my lamp being filled or not (or my Easter baskets as my comparison).

Another thought...

The humorous part-The Easter Bunny hid our hard boiled eggs throughout our play room. The kids went searching and found all but one. I was in no way going to leave the one not found. Kai had a great idea..He said, "We should email the Easter Bunny and maybe he could tell us where it is." If only we had done what Kai and said. Sure enough the last egg was found hiding on top of the computer (hidden under a half fallen picture frame). If we had gone to turn on the computer to email the Easter bunny we would have found it a lot quicker.

The more serious part-I thought about that last egg. I wasn't about to leave that egg in the house not found. Just the thought of the smell or the mess it could bring if Eli found it, or whatever, it HAD to be FOUND! It reminded me of the Savior and how He knows us personally and cares for each of us personally.

Matthew 18:11-13
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred asheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

The song in my head is about this very idea/scripture. I absolutely love listening to Stephanie Smith. http://www.stephaniesmithmusic.com/

I hope you enjoyed my Easter thoughts.

Best Wishes Uncle Brandon

It's been a week since Uncle/Brother Brandon went to the Mission Training Center. We're so proud of him. He's going to the Washington, D.C. South Mission. Jason was very excited for him, knowing what wonderful experiences he'll have there and on his mission. The MTC brought back many memories for Jason. It's hard to believe Jason went into the MTC 10 years ago and 1 week prior to Brandon. Two years goes fast.