Hello dreamers and happy Tuesday!
As today’s topic is a little different, please feel free to leave the website whenever you feel uncomfortable or when you feel not related to the topic!
For many, Easter is a holiday associated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For Christians all over the world, it starts with a period of Lent, about 40 days, and it ends with the Holy Resurrection.
P.S. I am an Orthodox Christian and this is why I come up with the topic so late!
Growing up in an eastern European country, I associate this holiday with a lot of church hours, especially during the Holy Week, when we had special religious ceremonies, that were centered on the path Jesus had until His crucifixion and then resurrection!
I remember my grandma fasting, and we did too as much as we could, and I remember all the work we had to do in advance. In Romania, we have a saying “treaba ca la Pasti” or “chores like it’s Easter”.
Easter it’s during spring, so it’s natural that many of the spring cleaning chores were to be done around this holiday to have a clean home, a neat yard, backyard, and garden. All the trees must be painted with a fresh coat of white, the yards must be swept, and trees had to be trimmed, flowers must be seeded from early spring to bloom.
In the houses, everything had to be deep cleaned and washed so it would smell like “spring”. Also, it was the time when the graveyards had a makeover!
When it came to food, we would also make red eggs, and sweet bread a kind of panettone. And of course, as it was my grandma’s chore, on the holy Friday, my grandpa went with me to the church at noon when it was a special ceremony.
Everything was a fairytale in my eyes, and I look with nostalgia at these flashbacks! However, growing up, I discovered that something new took the place of the real meaning of this holiday: the Easter bunny!
I love bunnies, and I love how fluffy and joyful this symbol is, however, I think we need to take a step back when it comes to prioritizing this over the real meaning of Easter.
I found myself shopping the other day, for spring, cause spring cleaning.. yeah I got old, and I didn’t notice that it was Christmas all over again, only with flowers and bunnies and chicks, but the message on them was Happy Easter!
I think it’s a little unfair to put the consumerism need on top of this holiday that is about the things Jesus went through, to be reminded that were not quite cheerful and happy in the end (betrayal, being sold, judged, shamed, and killed by crucifixion).
Let’s enjoy the spring with all its symbols, chicks, eggs, new life, rabbits, birds, flowers, and greens, but let’s acknowledge, that besides the painted eggs, they are spring symbols, not Easter!
Until next time, #adreamerlife!
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