hello! i hope y'all had a wonderful Easter/Resurrection weekend! i went with my family and joel to Louisiana this past weekend. joel and i didn't get in to my grandparents' until later Saturday night, but it was still quite an adventure. my family is crazy! there was tons of food (as always) and jokes, card games, etc. all of us kids also got in the hot tub Saturday night and goofed off for a bit. then my mom and i stayed up talking about Twilight and other books until 1:30am...only to get up around 8:00 that same morning to get ready for church! yeah....not the smartest thing we've ever done.
Sunday was fun, but very full. from going to my aunt's church, to eating (tons of food), to watching a movie (Beverly Hills Chihuahua - cute...but definitely a little silly), to taking a long route home, it was a very long day. to finally arrive home last night at 11:30pm...to then get up this morning (at 5:30am) to come to work is very exhausting! but all in all, it was a wonderful weekend! i love my crazy family and wouldn't trade anything one of them for the world! lol!
Sunday morning my grandmother woke us up screaming "its a beautiful day in the neighborhood" and "wake up! we've got places to go, people to see, things to do" then once we were out of bed and eating, she says, "Does anyone know what the word 'Easter' means?"
We all just looked at her with blank stares; a) it was waaaay too early for us to think that hard about something and b) no one knew - even her! lol! so we looked up 'Easter'. so interesting fact, this is its origin:
originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover. Hence the name came to be given to the festival of the Resurrection of Christ, which occurred at the time of the Passover. In the early English versions this word was frequently used as the translation of the Greek pascha (the Passover). When the Authorized Version (1611) was formed, the word "passover" was used in all passages in which this word pascha occurred, except in Act 12:4. In the Revised Version the proper word, "passover," is always used.
i thought it was very interesting that the name for this holiday commemorating our Christ's resurrection came from a pagan goddess. anyways...thought you might like to know! :)
all in all, it was a great, fun filled weekend and the greatest part is, that once again we celebrated the awesome miracle of Christ's resurrection!
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