Easter

I love Easter.

So many cute projects and yummy treats.

Too bad I won't get any of those

sweet treats.

Can Easter be the same!?

YES.

It should be. Because that's not the focus anyway, right!?

Here

(click on Sunday AM and then Jeffrey R Holland)

is a fabulous talk that was given by one of the apostles from my church on

how Christ shouldered the burden of our salvation.

EVERYONE should read this talk.

It is so powerful.

Elder Holland talks about the solitary journey Jesus himself had to walk during the final week of his mortality as he effected the atonement.

As a Mormon, I celebrate Easter by knowing that Christ was resurrected and LIVES!!

He overcame death so that we can all live again one day.

The Mormon church emphasizes that CHRIST LIVES rather than the fact that He died.

Here's a quote from our first prophet, Joseph Smith-

"And this is the gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us— “That he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness; “That through him all might be saved whom the Father had put into his power and made by him”

We acknowledge and embrace our Savior's sacrifice for us. We believe that there were two things for which He offers salvation-- death and sin. We believe that the payment for our sins was paid in Gethsemane (Luke 22), and salvation from death came through his resurrection.

It's overwhelming to think of what Christ endured for us all,

and personally for ME.

I'm grateful for the knowledge I have, and for the love of my Savior.

Happy Easter.