Easter-Gracie Kay Close

 I love Easter. It has always been my favorite time of the year to celebrate for a multitude of reasons. I love spending time with my family, and I love celebrating Jesus's love for us. April has always been a month packed full of new beginnings. Everything is blooming, I've gone around the sun another year and so has two other members of my family, and of course the reminder of why we are all here in the first place.

That being said, I spent this first Easter alone. I do not live very far from home, but I decided it was best to not travel home. I woke up and I was reflecting on the past couple Easter's I had spent. Always with my family, but not always at church. I decided to watch a livestream sermon this morning given my homesickness and wanting to listen to his word. I am writing this blog more as a brain dump from my feelings so I guess this could be seen as more of a journal but I did have something I wanted to share from the sermon I listened to this morning, especially since we broach the subject of religion a lot of the times in class. There is a newer pastor that has been preaching at my church back home, but this was the first time I've heard someone address the bible as a history text in sermon before. It of course is a religious text, but after listening this morning it also so much more than that. It is history, and and amazing account of a period of time at that. No matter what one might believe, there is historical evidence that the reason we celebrate Easter is a factual event just like many other books discussed in the Bible. I found comfort sitting in my dorm listening to what this new pastor had to say, and also found myself learning so much more about the text in front of me. This was a different kind of Easter for me, but I don't think I have appreciated Easter for what is before today. 

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