Easter eggs...

Gavin and I had a lot of fun decorating Easter eggs this year. We also decided to make our own set of Resurrection Eggs (a set of twelve plastic eggs, the content of which tell the Easter story), and this was the year that we told Gavin the real Easter story. To teach about resurrection, you have to first teach about death, and this made me nervous. But between Grandma's cat dying and my decision to tell Gavin more about his great grandparents in heaven, God paved the way for a good conversation about Easter.

He had such good questions for us all season, like "But why did they hurt Jesus like that?" We have some great Easter books, and by the end of April I feel like Gavin had a good grasp of what it was all really about.

He is risen! He is risen, indeed!!!