What is Easter About? / Easter Egg Hunts

The Easter Egg hunt. A favorite activity that our kids enjoy every year. So how did this originate and become a part of our Easter celebration?

Of course we know it as a game in which we hide either colored boiled eggs, plastic eggs filled with candy or even chocolate eggs outside or even inside for ours kids to find.

According to some historians, eating eggs during lent was abstained from by Christians in the early church because they come from animals that are killed.

Many traditions of Easter have pagan roots and egg hunts are no different. It is believed that they go back to the 1700s when an egg laying hare named Oschter
Haws laid eggs in the grass by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Children made nests for the hare to lay its eggs in an d also look for the eggs.

Hence the tradition evolved into the Easter bunny, eggs  baskets, and egg hunts as we know them today

Perhaps egg hunts don't have any thing to do with the real meaning for Easter and the Ressurection of Jesus Christ. But really the egg itself doesn't either except as St. Augustine had likened them to the hope of new life. But as one church in Florida uses their hunts as a tool to invite the community to learn about their church by handing not only information about it, but also Jesus and it's real meaning of why it is celebrated. I am sure that there are other churches that do the same.

Pagan roots. Yeah. But, there are ways of using those kinds of Easter symbols to the glory of God.  And that should always be where our focus is at during this season.

April 7,2019 Easter reading: Mark 11:8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road while others spread branches they had cut   from  the field.

Thank for visiting today  Friends! May God bless you on this Lord's Day!