Dear Sammy,
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, a holy day that starts the season of Lent that ends on Easter Sunday.
Easter celebrates a time a long long time ago when God made a group of very sad people very, very happy. When I was your age, we gave up something we loved during Lent so that we'd feel a little of the sadness those people felt, and when Easter came and we could do that thing again (like eat candy) we'd be happy and maybe we'd understand how happy the people a long long time ago became.
You're right. That doesn't make sense - so Pops and I don't do that anymore. Instead, we try to discover something that will help us to know how much God loves us every day, so that when Easter comes, we'll be so full of love, it will overflow (like an Easter basket!) and maybe someone who doesn't know how much God loves them will begin to understand.
Here are some of the things Pops and I will do. We will take pictures of nature because God loves everything! I will ride my bike more and Pops will go running because the wind on our faces feels like God kisses. AND (here's the big one) we will make each other salads with teeny tomatoes and fruits that are purple because God made those but we'd both rather eat chips.
During Lent, at school and at home, you'll probably make pictures of Easter eggs, baby chicks, rabbits, and flowers - Lots of flowers! They are all reminders of how much God loves all of life which is why he created so many, many living things. God created you, dear Sam, and It is my hope that when Easter comes you will know just a little more than you do now how very much God loves YOU (and your brother and your Mom and your Dad and Pepper and... name everyone you love :-).)
Love,
Marmee
Thoughts on the day, time, season etc. for my grandson
Brudders
Dear Readers,
Our Grandson, Sammy, was born in May, 2009 and while the Tuesday Letters are addressed to him, they're for his brother, Max, too.
Peace and good________,
Beth
In 1960 my Dad used a manual typewriter and multiple pieces of carbon paper to write weekly letters to family members who were away from home. My college friends made sure they had lunch with me on Tuesdays, the day his letter arrived, so that they could hear his take on everything from weasels in the garden to weasels in the White House. When Art and I started the "Adventure Stage of Life", we re-kindled the tradition Dad began forty years ago. (Letters are sent occasionally, not weekly… We're not as disciplined as Dad.)
Our Grandson, Sammy, was born in May, 2009 and while the Tuesday Letters are addressed to him, they're for his brother, Max, too.
Peace and good________,
Beth
In 1960 my Dad used a manual typewriter and multiple pieces of carbon paper to write weekly letters to family members who were away from home. My college friends made sure they had lunch with me on Tuesdays, the day his letter arrived, so that they could hear his take on everything from weasels in the garden to weasels in the White House. When Art and I started the "Adventure Stage of Life", we re-kindled the tradition Dad began forty years ago. (Letters are sent occasionally, not weekly… We're not as disciplined as Dad.)
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Peace and good_______,
Beth
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