Easter

Easter isn't all about candy, chocolate bunnies, and egg hunts.  Here is what Easter is really about:

On Good Friday Jesus died on a cross to save our sins.  He died.  Then on Saturday they took him off the cross and put him in a tomb and rolled a stone to cover the cave so no one would steal the body.

The next day, on Sunday, two women Mary Magdalen and another Mary went to the tomb to put special spices on Jesus' body and saw that the tomb was empty! They saw an angel and the angel Gabriel said: "Jesus is not here, he has resurrected!  Go tell the disciples to spread the news!" 

So the two woman ran to the disciples who were praying in the disciple Matthew's house and said to Peter (the head of the disciples) "Peter! Jesus has resurrected! He is alive!!"  At first the disciples didn't believe but right then JESUS appeared to them and said "Do you not believe me? These women are telling the truth.  Look at my hands and my feet. See the holes in them?"  When the disciples saw the hands and the feet they said  "Look! It really is Jesus!!" Jesus stayed with them for forty days and on the last day he took the disciples to a mountain and said  "I'm going to live with my Father in heaven so I want you to go tell everybody about God and make disciples everywhere!"  After saying that, Jesus went up to heaven.

So thats why we celebrate Easter ~ because Jesus died for our sins and resurrected into heaven!