I used to love Easter sunday back in Parkchester, in the Bronx.  Waking up to easter baskets of candy.               I mean who wouldn't like it? The men all in their new or best suits, the women all in their Easter bonnets and freshly purchased, from Macy's or Cornells. Off to Church at St. Helenas  or if you lied that way St. Raymonds, or maybe, St. Anthony's. After that home to that candy.,Maybe a quick stop at Pakula's bakery and a black and white cookie. We had the Easter Parade at the oval (they gave trophies for the best dressed and such. It was an amazing day. next probably off to grandmas for Easter dinner, a big ham with all the fixins.
But now that I'm a bit older and a thousand miles away,  I've learned that this day we celebrate is really quite different, clothes and food don't make a person.  enjoy your fa ncy hats and suits. Your banquets  and goodies......                        but most of all enjoy your Savior.  the only one who could give you redemtion, life, forgiveness at a price you could never pay .

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If I speak in human and angelic tongues^* but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.^a2And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.^b3If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.^c

4^* Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,^d5it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,^e6it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.^f

8^* Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.9For we know partially and we prophesy partially,10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.11When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.