Easter Devotion - Preparing Our Hearts

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday...the beginning of the Easter or Lenten season. This time will culminate with Good Friday on March 25th and Easter on March 27th. This is the greatest celebration for Christians yet for many of us, including our children, it often revolves around Easter egg hunts and candy with very little reflection on what this most holiest of days really means. 

The cross is not a comfortable image. Suffering and death are subjects that most of us want to avoid. Yet it's important to prepare our hearts and our minds during this Lenten season, leading up to Easter, in order to draw nearer to our Lord. 

I will be sharing a daily devotion for each of the forty days in Lent, plus Sundays. These devotions will focus on prayer - on people in the Bible who prayed, and especially on Jesus and His prayers. They are written by Sue Mink from a booklet entitled The Sanctuary for Lent, 2016.

So how to make Easter meaningful for ourselves and our children? I believe that if we can spend a few minutes every day in God's Word and prayer, we can better embrace the Easter message. Just like we prepare for Christmas with the Advent season, we can prepare for Easter with the Lenten season.