Will I give Him my best?
When I was a young girl many, many years ago Easter was given so much more significance than it is now. Even though Spring Cleaning had just occurred, the house was still scrubbed from top to bottom, curtains starched and ironed. The dining room table was set with the real cloth tablecloth and Mom’s best dishes. Even the card table for the kids looked better than most any other day. The house even smelled like Easter….all those lilies and hyacinths.
We all had new outfits – “from the skin out” as my mother always said. New socks, new dress, new maryjanes, new hat and gloves were ready for Sunday morning Mass. We didn’t even see our Easter baskets until we got home from Mass. Meeting the Risen Lord in the finest we had to wear came first. As we knelt before Mass, we would silently tell Jesus how successful …or not….we had been trying to make sacrifices for Him during Lent.
How very different it is these days. No hat, no gloves. No scrubbing, no starching. We don’t do the external preparation for Easter as we used to. More importantly, are we doing internal preparation? What do we have to give Our Lord on Easter morning? Have we cleaned something up within ourselves? Have we added something that would please Him?
There are a few weeks left before the glory of Easter is upon us. There is still time to prepare to greet the Risen Lord and may He look at us on Easter morning and see that we bring our best just for Him.
