I grew up not celebrating the Easter Bunny and used to think I was somehow missing out on something important. I remember for the longest time being angry about it. The same went for Halloween and Santa Claus. But the older I get the more I appreciate having grown up under my mom’s convictions.<\/p>\n
And I had to come into that understanding myself\u2014after years of fighting it.\u00a0Am I just being too conservative? Just a radical Christian? <\/strong><\/p>\n But more I study who & what Eastre<\/a> actually was (a pagan goddess of fertility who turned her bird into a bunny that laid colorful eggs for children) the more I am disheartened by how trivial this season has become\u2014even in the Church.<\/p>\n \u2022 Churches dropping eggs from helicopters. If the Church and the world are both engaged in the celebrating of eggs, candy and bunnies… who’s getting more play this weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n I understand Christians wanting to ‘take back’ Easter by bringing these customs into our churches. But are we belittling the magnitude of Christ’s sacrifice while we do it?<\/p>\n I work with women everyday who struggle with pornography and sexual addiction. Easily one of the most shameful and secretive struggles faced by a Christian.<\/p>\n When you have the Church and their nearly silent stance on pornography as it affects men, paired with women in the congregation being the ones who are addicted, what you’re left with is a hot soup of silence, isolation and shame.<\/p>\n Not the Easter Bunny. But to the One who came and died… and more importantly rose again so that they could live life abundantly…. not in shame. The gift of freedom freely given <\/strong>and a Hand of Grace to lift them up.<\/p>\n – – <\/em><\/p>\n Isaiah 54:5-6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, I grew up not celebrating the Easter Bunny and used to think I was somehow missing out on something important. I remember for the longest time being angry about it. The same went for Halloween and Santa Claus. But the older I get the more I appreciate having grown up under my mom’s convictions. And… Continue reading An Easter Reflection (and perhaps a bit controversial)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,6,183,199,33,47,194,195,55,173,185,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-198","category-addiction","category-crystal-renaud","category-dirty-girls-come-clean","category-grace","category-porn","category-responsibilty","category-s-c-a-r-s","category-sex","category-sex-trafficking","category-sexual-abuse","category-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Churches putting on egg ‘hunts’ consisting of tens of thousands of eggs.
\n\u2022 Churches celebrating with huge festivals and pictures with the Easter Bunny.<\/p>\nThe Bunny or The Christ? <\/strong><\/h3>\n
Who can they to turn to when the world says it\u2019s okay, and the Church is silent?<\/h3>\n
That’s a celebration I can get behind.<\/h3>\n
\nhe was crushed for our iniquities;
\nthe punishment that brought us peace was on him,
\nand by his wounds we are healed.
\n6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
\neach of us has turned to our own way;
\nand the LORD has laid on him
\nthe iniquity of us all.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"