Easter!!

Length of Shower:  The shower can sometimes raise you up, but not from the dead --Today is Easter.

Christians celebrate this day by getting dressed up and putting on spring colors and bonnets and heading off to the earliest church services you have ever been to...at sunrise!  They go and see people they haven't seen since the Christmas service (because those are the only two services those people go to) and they sing and pray and listen to the old story of how Jesus broke out of the tomb and was raised from the dead.  This story will have some "new" twist or interpretation to it, but it is still the same story at it's root.  And Christians sometimes whoop and hollar and say big words really loudly like, "Hallelujah!" Then they generally go and do some sort of food and have a big meal with family and friends.  It's kind of like thanksgiving in the spring.  It's a good time.

The rest of the world, and Christians too, celebrate by having a mysterious and large bunny who no one ever actually sees come to their house, ala Santa Clause, and brings candy and then proceeds to hide colored eggs around your house for everyone to go find.  What!?  I assume you are going to find the eggs because if you don't then they will rot and smell up your house.  Wow, thanks a lot you stupid bunny!  That's exactly what I wanted to do on my weekend day off in the middle of spring was spend a bunch of time looking for eggs that I can't eat.

How and where did this silly tradition come from?  I understand that in the commercialization of a Christian holiday we have to provide some alternative for the non-Christians to do, but a bunny that hides eggs!?  Really?  That was the best we could come up with?  Really!?  Rabbits don't even lay eggs!  The more you look at this the less sense it makes!  Why didn't we do something simple like a rabbit that hides carrots, or a chicken who leaves you a pile of chocolate eggs.  Why is there a rabbit hiding something that has nothing to do with rabbits?  And where did the eggs come into the picture?  Sometimes I just don't understand commercialization.

No matter how you celebrate, I hope that you have a wonderful Easter and that you find all the eggs you desire....why you would desire to do that is beyond me, but I wish you a happy Easter anyway :)