Easter Sunrise - Family Style

Just can't keep the powder off the feet!
Easter morning 2010, our family had a very meaningful sunrise celebration together...just the 5 of us.

I taped off a rectangular path and placed a clean flat board on one end. I filled the path with baby powder.

Each of us was challenged to find a way to hop, skip, or jump down the path, landing on the board with not one, single speck of powder on our feet.

An impossible feat. (Feet? Sorry, couldn't resist.)

The board represents a holy area.  Holy, set apart and completely clean from sin. Of course, the board couldn't even have one speck of dust on it to be truly Holy, but that was impossible.

God IS Holy. He is completely clean, without even the tiniest speck of sin on Him.

The powder represented sin. Like our feet covered with powder, our lives are covered with sin.

Hero and Butter, nails in the cross
We walked across the yard to our wooden cross that the Butter and a friend made a few years ago. Each of us hammered one nail into the cross, talking all the while about Jesus and what his death on the cross meant for us....how he didn't deserve our punishment for sins but we are so thankful that he took it.

Then the kids dragged the heavy cross to the powdery pathway. We laid the cross over the powder, creating a bridge.

"Now! Who can get to the clean (holy) area without powder (sin)?" We all could!

Jesus' death on the cross created a bridge of sorts for us to reach God.

We also pointed out this very crucial fact....even though we made our cross ourselves, we can't make a way to get to God. People have tried all sorts of things to "get to" God...and they don't work. It's a gift of Love that can't be earned or created on our own. It's a gift of Love not based on anything wonderful we do or say. It's a gift, given freely and unconditionally. Accepted by us through faith, trust in Him.

A gift of eternal life.

Rayray walking across the bridge of love
Maybe you have a blessed Easter weekend, celebrating our Risen Savior!



(We used this book as a resource for the above activity.)

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Tutu said…
What a fantabulous idea. Did you come up with that by yourself?
April 23, 2011 at 9:08 AM
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