Bright Colored Eggs and the Meaning of Easter

We dye eggs. We like to draw on them and then dye them brightly. We like to mix the colors and triple dip them. These beautiful eggs will be put into baskets filled with peeps and Lindt chocolate chicks. They'll sit beside new jars of bubbles, sidewalk chalk, and wind up bunnies. All of these things are lovely and fun. These things are part of our Easter traditions. But we also tell our children that these little treats really have nothing to do with our resurrected Savior.

In these baskets filled with candy and toys they will get one other thing. They get one every year. My children always receive a lamb. An Easter lamb. Stuffed or chocolate or on a sweet card. They get a lamb because it has everything to do with our Savior, the perfect, innocent lamb who redeemed us with his death. And gave us hope with his life.

We want our children to know the story of Easter. We want them to carry it long after they have outgrown the egg dying and the baskets of treats. We want them to hold onto Hope. Hope in a Savior that is theirs. Hope in a life eternal. We want them to remember the lamb.