I had all these plans for the Easter season. I’ve been wanting to do something similar to our Advent celebrations to help our family anticipate Resurrection Sunday  the four weeks leading up to Easter Sunday.  It didn’t happen. We got sick and I spent a good deal of those weeks fighting off our hot-season colds. Maybe next year…I guess I better start preparing now.

We enjoyed the special services our church had for Holy Week. And we spent a week in family Bible time on the death and Resurrection of Christ. We bought duck eggs (chicken eggs are brown) and colored them. The kids spent an hour and a half coloring 10 eggs (5 each). They loved dipping the eggs multiple times. (I learned this year that you don’t need special kits for coloring eggs, food coloring works just as well.)

Instead of hiding our colored eggs, I packed little gifts inside of toilet paper rolls and had the kids paint them. We hid those Sunday afternoon. What the kids especially enjoyed was hiding the “eggs” for Josh and me to find.

Being in Cambodia gives one a fresh look at Easter. In American almost everyone celebrates Easter. You don’t have to believe in the resurrection of our Lord to celebrate the holiday. In Cambodia this holiday is for Christians – it’s for those who believe that Jesus rose from the grave. There are no secularized events for those who don’t believe. It’s a Christian celebration…and for those who don’t believe it is not a special day of joy and hope for them. We pray that one day it will be.

Easter weekend we also celebrated Josh birthday.