Hello hello, my good friend, reader of this present post! Happy Tuesday and happy belated new week, and happy Belated Easter! Of course, I would like to add in this post before we begin a note of very happy birthday to dear friends Johannes and J., that are having their birthdays this week! They are my favorite hunans and make my life better, as dearest friends do! A lot of happy things for the beginning of this present text. Now, do tell, how are you? Anything nice you did for Easter? As for me, I am okay, and I actually did do something different for the holiday: I went on a trip. In fact, it is my first time going on a proper trip out of town since... a long time.
Not that it was the best of trips... I did not have the best of times. It was good to see my aunt and to hang out with her and mom, but I am completely out of tune when it comes to traveling. I felt terrible and small things would make me feel very upset and anxious, to the point I cried a lot in the second and last day of the trip. Mom and aunt were incredibly supportive, though, and for that I am very grateful. It wasn't bad, but definitely stressful to the point of pain. I do not blame the holiday, that I am very fond of, though, in fact the Holiday was a nice background thing to have, just a beautiful reminder of the ressurection of Jesus. A moment to celebrate with chocolate and bunnies as well, because I cannot possibly imagine the Lord being against sweets and fluffy friends. Some dogmatic christians are on the pushback against the bunnies and the chocolate. As some push against gifts on Christmas, on the whole Halloween thing... Chesterton dud say that there is nothing more harmful to a christian image and cause than a resentful christian. The pharisee, that if depending on them, we'd be lenting 24/7 and preparing for judgment day. For all its faults, as my grandparents of the dad side did have a strong hand when it comes to spread their baptist creed, much to their detriment if you ask me, apart from their zealous approach, they were actually very reasonable and balanced, without in any moment putting their faith in the creator to doubt. My grandma believes in a God of love and deliverance, and seeing how much Him provided her with the strenght to keep going after grandpa had to go away, I was much moved and inspired by that. As a result, I myself am very nuch a baptist in creed. And being raised in a more secular household with mom and dad, mom being agnostic and dad being more of a freestyle loosely christian, I could not really see myself going towards the rites of catholicism for example, too over the top. I do appreciate baroque a lot and I think catholicism did create the beautiful arts and crafts framing we in the west live in, but I am a baptist, quite happily so. With all of that, I rejoice on the more secular symbols of the holidays and I don't think that drives me away from God in any way. In fact, I think making such celebrations more stoic and sombre will alienate an already highly secular part of society, that otherwise would be more than happy in partaking with the celebrations. No, let us have chocolate and bunnies for easter, santa clauses and decorated evergreens for Christmas. Let them bicker and whine as they wish.
So, this was my Easter and some thoughts on the more emotional christians out there, can't lie, I find them as insufferable as the militant atheists, another group I detest. The week is still young, what to do next for spending my time? Maybe I could play some nice computer game as I do, I would love to work on another drawing at some point, either a rework, a new piece, or maybe I will do both. We'll see. Will I write another post this week? I sure hope so, writing can be exhausting and hard but I feel so accomplished afterwards, specially when I think I did a good job on writing! I hope I can return again this week, before May comes in even closer. I like hanging out with you!
Well, with that all being said, I will return so no worries, God bless and I wish you the best! See you again real soon!
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