Easter (Greek: Πάσχα,ፍሲካ (Ethiopic), Pascha) is an important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.^[1] According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days^[2] after his crucifixion. Many Christian denominations celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday^[3] (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday. The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted to be between A.D. 26 and 36.

Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of prayer and penance.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the Moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic “full moon”) is on or after March 21 (the ecclesiastic “vernal equinox“).

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar. It is also linked to Spring Break, a secular school holiday (customarily a week long) celebrated at various times across North America, and characterized by road trips and bacchanalia.

Cultural elements, such as the Easter Bunny, have become part of the holiday’s modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike. There are also some Christian denominations who do not celebrate Easter.

16th century Russian Orthodox icon of the Descent into Hades of Jesus Christ, which is the usual Orthodox icon for Pascha.
Observed by	Most Christians
Type	Christian
Significance	Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus
2009 date	April 12 (Western) April 19 (Eastern)
2010 date	April 4 (both Western and Eastern)
Celebrations	Religious (church) services, festive family meals, Easter egg hunts, and gift-giving (latter two, especially in USA and Canada)
Observances	Prayer, all-night vigil (almost exclusively Eastern traditions), sunrise service (especially American Protestant traditions)
Related to	Passover, of which it is regarded the Christian equivalent; Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday which lead up to Easter; and Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi which follow it.

Look folks I know it seems like an easy job but being an Easter Bunny definitely has its Provita’s and its Con’s.  Hard hard work slaving away looking for the perfect egg to match each child, hallow or filled with goodies, shiny or non shinesco, its rough times.

Then on top of all of that you end up lugging it all around… look… it takes energy and the only way to handle the load is to consume some of it at least you know? A bit of Quality Control on the side not to mention a lighter load by far!

Well moving along swiftly and back to this Heavy Load bizziness.  It gets rather heavy lugging all that melting shell encased goods around making deliveries and checking up on all the kidlette to see if they’ve been good and I today the unthinkable happened!

Yip you got it… I dropped a few of the baby ones, look… they slipped through the basket cracks ok! *sigh* yes all over the house as well.  So now two children know that I’ve been a visiting and what is worse they found all of them before I could recover them!

As I type this they are still searching for me in every orifice of the house, there are still two eggs that they haven’t found… I doubt they’ll stop searching… Yip they’ll probably pass out in their search positions all encompassed in eye binoculars and stealth clothing… little bleeps!

I now sit outside consoling myself with the few that didn’t slip through and I must say the quality is rather delisharse though my thighs are not happy of course.

No happy medium…

Always there be pro’s and there be con’s but most of all…

Adventures!

When you’re having a bad day the only way to reverse it is with a little adventure and fun… if you don’t do it who will?

Ever thought about this question: What is the difference between happiness or joy?

Simple.

Happiness is man and world given and joy is God given. Happiness can fill your heart, but it leaves you empty. Happiness is given by materialistic things and pleasures of life. Happiness leaves you wanting for more. Happiness is covered by a façade.You know how it is? It’s like when during Easter time your kid wants you to buy him a chocolate bunny and after you buy it for him… what happens? He gets dissapointed when he bites into it because it is hollow and empty. That is what happiness is. It is empty and hollow like that chocolate Easter bunny.

Joy, on the other hand, never goes away. Joy is full. Joy is God given. It satisfies. Joy is filled by God, by the fruit of the Spirit, and  by walking in freedom from sinful desires and walking in authority. The Joy that God gives you can not be taken away, because you know that you are in Jesus’ hands. You know that He holds your world in His hands and that nothing can happen to you because you know that He guards you and that the God of Israel never sleeps nor slumbers. Joy can never be taken away. Joys fills you with a happiness that you can not explain. Except for Godly fear, there is no fear in Joy. 

Go ahead… choose for yourself: Joy? or Happiness?