Tipnut has lots of links...how to dye eggs in various ways.
But how about an Easter Turduckan? (456 calories each)....
Martha Stewart's easter workshop...
And knitting an Easter Peep...>---
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Sermon commences. Agnostics can skip below.
I have to laugh, the "google ads" on the sites are those fundamentalist type:
"Do colored eggs & Easter rabbits have anything to do with Jesus?"
Well, yes...you see, a live chick coming out of an egg that looks like a stone reminds us that life conquers death...a rabbit appearing in the spring from a hole in the ground reminds us of Christ coming out of the tomb...
Reading the glory of God in nature led to Easter, the pagan holiday is about life reappearing in spring after the death of winter, and Easter the Christian holiday tells us that Christ's resurrection reminds us that we too shall rise again.
So is it a sin to recognize the similarities, and celebrate it that way?
Chesterton sniffs at the bluenoses and puritans who take one item out of context and build a church out of it:
Of these theological equalisations I have to speak afterwards. Here it is enough to notice that if some small mistake were made in doctrine, huge blunders might be made in human happiness. A sentence phrased wrong about the nature of symbolism would have broken all the best statues in Europe.
A slip in the definitions might stop all the dances; might wither all the Christmas trees or break all the Easter eggs.
As for the real lesson of Easter, it was put this way by one stubborn German:
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.
-Pope Benedict XVI from Jesus of Nazareth
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