Children dressed for Easter, Tallahassee, FL (1957), Source/Author Florida Memory, State Library and Archives, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/261196 (PD per Section 257.35(6) Florida Statutes)
Easter Sunday was an important day on the calendar when we were children.
We would be dressed in our best Spring finery for church – Easter bonnets, white cotton gloves, starched dresses, lace anklets, patent leather shoes. With trees coming into bud and daffodils in bloom, the whole world seemed fresh and new.
Of course, appearances can be deceiving. Child abuse can be disguised for the world. But no amount of chocolate eggs or jelly beans can make up for it.
These days the focus seems more on the Easter bunny than the Resurrection. Which is a tragedy, since it is Christ who offers abuse victims genuine comfort and healing.
He offers us, in fact, a new life (whatever may have caused our scars).
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5: 17).
Wishing you all a Happy Easter!
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