Easter Greetings

A belated Happy Easter to you all (I say in my best Queen-like voice)...

Well it was a pleasant Easter break, it must be said (the word 'break' here is used fairly loosely since I am in fact nearing the end of a much longer 3 week break). the main things I remember from the weekend are: cleaning garden pots for my Dad, going on a rather misguided walk with my Sister and her Andy (misguided in the sense that upon being given a left/right choice, I chose right and thus rather than walking by a pleasant lake on Easter Monday, we found ourselves walking on a path which winds its way between the A311 and an industrial estate). On Saturday a few of us went to a place called Pizzeria Organico or something, and celebrated Andy's Linton's birthday which, again, was pleasant - and proveded plenty of opportunity to confuse Alec by talking to Mexican Lorenna in Spanish while he sat between us perplexed and confused. Always fun! The most exciting news of the conversation was that Lorenna has heard of, and even seen, the legend from Puerto Rico that is Danilo Montero. Aware that'll make no sense to most of you, I move hastily on...

One thing that challenged me was what was said in the talk during the Good Friday service at St Pete's - that we don't make enough of Easter. Christmas is obviously a great event for Christians, and worth celebrating, but Easter - well that's in a whole other league. Unless what we celebrate at Easter is true, the whole Christian faith is an absolutely useless excercise in uselessness (like, oh I dunno, a solar powered deep sea sub or something - although I guess that is conceivable cos it would just charge up its battery when it is in the sun, but you know what I'm driving at). But since the Easter message is true - well, that changes everything. That sort of altered how I saw Easter this year, since, like most people, I'm usually in the habit of seeing Easter as just another opportunity for a bank holiday.

So that brings us up to today...