What Do You Do Differently On Easter ?Why??

[Starise]

How is this day different for you?

[Hopefully]

Hey Starise, I will have dinner with family. I live alone so used to eating alone. That’s what makes Easter different for me. 

[other one]

We really don't do anything different.

[enoob57]

Me I walk around on my hands all day

[Dennis1209]

As with Christmas, it is a special Day selected set apart and aside for remembrance, praise and thanksgiving. Israel and the Jews were given special feasts, ordinances, and days to observe and remember forever. 

If there were no resurrection, everything would be in vain. Our blessed hope all hinges that Jesus in fact did raise from the dead on the third day. Everyday should be celebrated as Easter, but as the Jews have specific days to remember and celebrate, I suppose our Lord would not object to a man-made tradition picking a day remembering and celebrating His risen Son and our Lord and Savior. 

[missmuffet]

Nothing different here except for a ham dinner.

[Marathoner]

Every day is a special day and I'll touch upon the reason why, @Starise. I know our sister @kwikphilly will understand why every day is holy to me. 

I was a dead man, brother. My time on this earth was at an end and over the course of many years, I had forgotten the promise of the Lord which He spoke on that day when He first called me. He will walk with me, and I will walk with Him; He shall dwell with me, and I shall dwell with Him. All I had known in this life was fleeting, having to leave not long after I arrived in any given place, passing like the breeze on a summer's day. That changed when the Lord claimed me as His own: I am not a stranger in His house and while I go here and there on this earth, I never have to depart from His presence. Ever.

When Christ restored me to the land of the living, He reminded me of the promise I had forgotten through the trial and no small measure of tribulation. Had I convinced myself that the Lord abandoned me in the shadow of death? Yes, I did. Ah, but He proved me wrong!

This is why every day is special as well as holy in the Lord. God was well-pleased to grant me this opportunity to walk in His promise before I pass from this world.  

[teddyv]

Nothing particularly different for us. Maybe just a more special meal together as family. 

[enoob57]

4 hours ago, missmuffet said:

Nothing different here except for a ham dinner.

It has been whispered you are what you eat  

[Starise]

I think it's interesting to see the different ways people see the day. Many people probably are not at liberty to change what they do. Maybe they are working some sort of job that requires a normal day at work. Apparently my workplace doesn't acknowledge Easter or Good Friday but I was not required to work. 

Traditionally Easter was a special day at church with everyone stepping up their dress. In my church now some people dress up and others don't. "Dressing up" at my church does not require a tie. We men in the choir had agreed beforehand to wear a light pastel colored shirt, dress slacks and a blazer. Normally the choir sings in the back up high in the overhead seating where the organ is. Today they had us up front on risers. I think most churches do something different on Easter. I could be wrong. A few of the songs the praise team did were supposed to be modernized versions of older hymns. I personally didn't think it flowed very well.

In the past lunch at nanny's house after church was the thing to do. Grandma held everything together then, though at that time I didn't realize it. Now it's up to me to hold a gathering if one is held. This year we didn't and instead were invited by friends at church to come over for a meal. This isn't usually typical. If the Lord leads, I think it's a great way to pass an afternoon in fellowship over a meal if the conversation is kept on the good side and away from gossip.

As a believer, I continually try to remind myself of the tremendous sacrifice Christ made in our behalf and His resurrection as the forerunner to our eventual resurrection to life in Him, so for me Easter doesn't differ that way. I try to make everyday a reflection of Him and what He did on the cross.

I think it's ironic people are going to big Easter buffets here in the US or going to meals with others at their homes, like it's a huge celebration. The resurrection certainly is that. Only God knows a man's heart. It's hard for me to separate the resurrection from the crucifixion. I don't think we can really, can we?

 For me eating a  meal is bittersweet if  I think of a man who was whipped wearing a crown of thorns with large steel nails driven through His hands and feet. What it TOOK to make our celebrations all possible is not something most care to consider when we are asking someone to 'please pass the potatoes and the ham'.

For non Christians, it might as well be Martin Luther King day. Jesus was just a famous guy all of those hypocrite Christians get all dressed up for once a year.