Little Birdie

Easter was hard for me this year. I got really caught up in some selfish thoughts and behavior, and at the same time built up a lot of resentment towards our culture that focuses entirely on the easter bunny and not at all on Christ. We were in Wal-Mart on Friday night and there was an ENTIRE AISLE crammed with people punching and pushing and fighting with each other over some stupid plastic easter eggs…meanwhile, 1 little bitty kiosk in the front had a few “positive-thinking” (not really Christian) easter-oriented items.

Yes, I know, we live in a secular society now. I mean, what did we get everyone for easter? Yep, easter bunny baskets with chocolate and other yummy non-Christ oriented crap. And my thoughts and behavior were exactly the opposite of what I should have been thinking and doing. I am hoo-man and so is everyone else. I should have relied on grace to get me through this weekend, but instead I just kind of blocked all that out.

Plus, our easter program, to me, was kind of anti-climatic. I hope that wasn’t really the case, and my bad attitude just clouded my view of the whole thing. Everyone did a great job, but I felt like I missed the mark, didn’t find the river, whatever analogy you want to stick in there.

Anyway, by the end of the weekend I learned two things from this experience:

1. My life is not my own, and the sooner I realize that the easier things will be.

2. Praying out of fear is pretty much worthless. If I’m going to pray, I need to pray in faith. Jesus holds all things together. He reigns supreme over every thing and every situation in the entire universe. This means he reigns supreme over my little dumb selfish problems.

So, here’s to a humbling and sobering beginning to my week.

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