We celebrated Easter with our family and had a special egg dyeing station for the kids. Zoie and her cousin, Annie were ecstatic to sit side by side coloring eggs. This was Annie’s first Easter in America, so the anticipation was buzzing to capture the moment for my niece. The girls worked at crazy speed, grabbing eggs and tossing them in the colorful cups of dye. The joy on their faces was priceless.
As I watched the girls work together, I had a quiet moment thanking the Lord for His gift of adoption. He allowed our family to expand with the miracle of two adoptions, but more importantly, this was the day to celebrate our adoption, too. As a follower of Jesus Christ, we are adopted by God and called to love one another.
God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God. (1 John 4:10)
This is love.
I would love to know how you celebrated the resurrection with your family.
