Easter 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Easter celebration looked different this year, but we still took time to remember the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.


On Good Friday, Mom and I watched the ecumenical service recorded by seven local pastors, one of whom was her pastor, Frank Lewis, from Nashville First Baptist. Later, we watched the recorded Good Friday service that my church, Grace Community Church, sent out. Finally, that evening, we watched the service from Christ Community Church, and Andrew Peterson sang songs from his Resurrection Letters album. All of these services helped us to focus on the cross of Jesus and the sacrifice he made for our redemption of sins.

On Easter Sunday, while we knew it was going to be a different kind of celebration because of needing to stay at home, we still had joy in our hearts because of the truth that Jesus is alive! He is risen! He is risen, indeed!

We watched the Grace recorded service and then Mom got on her Zoom call with her Sunday School class. We finished up our morning of church by watching the live stream of the service from Nashville First Baptist. It was wonderful to sing the familiar songs of the season and to remember the accounts of the first Easter when Jesus' followers were in a time of uncertainty and dismay until they learned that Jesus had risen and was no longer dead!

(I also want to document that it only took me four Sundays to finally figure out that I could hook up my laptop to the TV, enabling us to watch our services on a larger screen.) 

Mom and I had a scaled-down traditional Easter dinner of ham, potatoes, asparagus, coleslaw, and deviled eggs. It was just enough and still very delicious.

We got finished in time to get on our family Zoom call with Daniel and the Masseys. It was fun to see and chat with everyone before the Massey bedtime (8-hour time difference).

The rest of the day at our house was spent reading (me) and working a puzzle (Mom) while it rained outside. One bonus of having to stay at home for Easter was that we didn't have to slosh around in our Easter finery on a rainy day!

Easter 2020 will be remembered as an unusual day, but for us, it was filled with joy because the reason for celebrating never changes! He is risen!