Preparing Our Hearts for Easter...

Easter will be here exactly one month from today! And I want to be ready...

not just with a nicely planned brunch, and a well set table,

 but I want my heart to be ready to grasp ALL that God did for me in sending His Son and ALL that Jesus did for me leading up to the cross and on the cross.

I want to be ready...

to celebrate the best news ever..."He is risen!"

I've always seen the cute Easter egg trees...you know the ones with branches and pretty decorated eggs hanging with pastel ribbons.

I know that eggs represent "new life", but other than that, I really never understood the purpose, except to have a pretty centerpiece on the Easter table.

I have to share a link with you, written by author Ann Voskamp of

 One Thousand Gifts....

Here I found the most lovely of Easter trees.  She calls it a Jesus Easter Tree.

You can download a devotional as well as the corresponding old master paintings to print out and hang on your very own tree.

The Link to Make your own Jesus Easter Tree can be found here:

A Holy Experience 

As I was putting the tree together...I looked at those branches and it dawned on me...

these are from a tree!  My savior died on a tree...for me! Wow! 

I hadn't put that together before.

Then I glued ribbons on the eggs and hung them on the branches.  What a difference

the pastel eggs made on those scraggly dark branches.  New life...

Jesus has given us all new life

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, 

the new is here."  2 Corinthians 5:17

I hung all the pictures on the tree.  What a beautiful story they tell.

I'm looking forward to starting a new Easter tradition that will

hopefully, remind me and my family of the journey Jesus made here on earth for us...

May my heart be ready...

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