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Americans Are Expected To Spend 24 Billion Dollars This Easter
Happy Easter!!!
Easter is my favorite holiday.
As a child, I loved the colorful eggs hidden between grass blades, the homemade basket stuffed with toys and my favorite candies, the chocolate bunnies, the trip to the hair salon, the Easter dress with matching shoes, new stockings, and new hair bows to match my dress. Jessica McClintock made my favorite dresses back then. There was also the Easter play at church and the big Easter dinner.
My mother and my grandmother went out of their way to make Easter, like all holidays, as special as could be. I can still picture my grandmother dying Easter eggs with PAAS dye over the gas stove.
As an adult, I’ve learned to appreciate the significance of the holiday. No matter what time of the year it might have occurred in history — it’s the reason Christians have faith in today’s world. We’re forgiven for our sins, and we will ultimately have an existence outside of this brutal world.
Easter has become commercialized.
People, Christians and non-believers, are frustrated with the state of the church.
Even with people suffering financially, and being unable to afford groceries, Americans felt obligated to spend 24 billion dollars for one day.
