Tag Archives: #Easter
Have you ever tried to tell the story of Easter to a child? It’s daunting.
In the first place, it’s at least R-rated. There is political manipulation, payoffs, treachery, fear, horrific torture, as well as the death of the hero. No wonder we want to skip from Palm Sunday to Easter Bunny and call that the holiday.
But at some point, we have to grow up and face the darkness. Not only what happened during the original Holy Week, but…..
Like all the crucial C’s, courage doesn’t necessarily come naturally. As I noted last week, it’s even hard for parents to want to develop courage in our children because it means asking our kids to struggle and sometimes even suffer along the way.
But we don’t find courage without encouragement. Someone…..
As we approach Easter, I find that I have come to the fourth and final crucial C that we need to develop within ourselves to equip ourselves adequately for the human endeavor: courage. Without planning it, I find new links between my parenting course teaching about courage and the…..