Holy Week

I LOVED the way this was written. I vividly remember scripts in the drama rotation during VBS that were very similarly worded to this. As a child, it appealed to the short attention span, but even as a teenage counselor for the day camp, the style of portraying the well-known accounts really rang a bell. I think often times Christianity is perceived by some as this formal, intimidating jargon when, in reality, the truths that we re-learn as young adults through styles like in this piece help remind us that they are still these same (wonderful) "bible stories" many of us were introduced to as a child. Those truths don't expire :) It definitely made me chuckle at times and add a new, refreshing perspective of what this week is really about.

I've celebrated Easter as a baptized Christian for 19 years, but I think in recent years I have really come to find a new meaning of Holy Week every time. This season, I have really been blessed to realize the intensity of the the phrases "God loves me" and "Jesus died for my sins". Yes, these may appear simple truths...so where are you going with this, Allyson? Within these past few quarters of college, those sentences have really come to life, now accentuating the ME and MY. I have come to find that in college I have come to "find myself", without high school, my parents, or my past to help define me in this new setting. Many times throughout the journey, this has been SO hard, and I have found myself feeling discouraged with low feelings of self-worth.  Yeah, I always knew that Jesus died for OUR sins so that we may have eternal life with the Father. But recently, it has really hit me that God loves ME and has made ME perfectly in His image, and MY sins are forgiven through Jesus' death and resurrection. Those two simple statements may appear obvious, but once I really stopped to think about the intensity of the meaning and realized that I had kind of taken the significance of that statement for granted, wowzers... Remember this Easter that God loves YOU exactly where you are, and Jesus died for YOU. What a gift :)