Seasons

 

What is your favorite season? I used to live in California, Texas and Oklahoma where the seasons were different from here in Pennsylvania. In those states, we did not have winter like we do here. We had very little snow. In the summer, it got much hotter there than it does here. One year in Oklahoma, the temperature was over 100 degrees for three months – that’s all summer!

Well, my favorite season is Easter. Did you know that Easter is a season and not just a day? We need a season to understand what it means for Jesus to rise from the dead. Understanding the resurrection is even more difficult than math, so it takes time.

Other people enjoy the Christmas season, which begins on the evening of December 24^th and does not end until Epiphany on January 6^th. It takes that long to understand what it means for God to be a human.

Well, as a church, our seasons are different than spring, summer, fall and winter. We have Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and then we have Seasons after Epiphany and after Pentecost. Don’t worry, I’m not going to test you on this. I’ll test your parents.

So, when you go home, I want you to remember that the Easter Season is a time to remember that Jesus is alive, and that he is sending the Holy Spirit to each of us on Pentecost. With that, let us pray.

Heavenly Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth is named: Bless these and all children, and give their parents the spirit of wisdom and love, so that the homes in which they grow up may be to them an image of Your Kingdom, and the care of their parents a likeness of Your love. We pray in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.