Easter

Going through the day and all the church meetings and other Easter activities, I really began to see the significance of the Easter holiday. Before this, I had still mostly been in the "holiday" mindset - candy, the Easter bunny, lots of church activities, candy, etc, candy. But, for the first time, I really thought about this holiday and what it means to us. Easter is the time when we celebrate essentially everything that the Lord has done for us, and specifically for the Atonement.

A lot of other faiths say that Easter is the time when we celebrate Christ's death, but so many of our own prophets and apostles and other leaders have repeatedly told us that Easter is a time to celebrate Christ's life - specifically through His resurrection. This is so true. Why would we celebrate Christ's death? Would it not make more sense to celebrate something less... mundane? Everyone dies. It isn't that unique of an event. But the fact that Christ rose from the dead is very unique. He opened the way for us to be resurrected as well, but not through His death. Only through His resurrection was this made possible.

More than this, though, it struck me just how much we owe to Christ and His sacrifice. Without what he did for us, we could not progress. We would be stuck where we are, with no chance of returning to our Heavenly Father, and we wouldn't even have bodies. Christ gave up everything so that we wouldn't have to. It is so important that we know and remember this, especially today. We need to take advantage of what He has done for us. He gave us the opportunity, now we have to use it.