Easter is coming! For the spring lover, there is no better time of year. It’s time to celebrate the new growth and beauty of the season. The cold weather is breaking and before you know it, light jackets and short sleeves will make their entrance from the dark recesses of the closet. The delicate air and young blossoms call you outdoors. The feeling is unlike any other time of year.

Decorating for Easter is a yearly tradition and rite of spring. When that spring fever hits, I know the time has come to transform the inside to match the outside. I start by pulling out my favorite plants and placing them more prominently in the room. Spring isn’t spring without flowers and butterflies, so they follow the path of the plants. The exquisite little nylon butterflies attached to craft wire and placed into the plants appear as though they have elegantly paused mid-flight to rest.

I like to make new fresh flower bouquets and arrangements for the season and I add the smaller nylon butterflies among the blossoms. The smaller nylon butterflies give it a similar yet different feel, so that they tie into my theme but are not repetitive. For example, in one area I will use nylon butterflies gracefully adorned with sparking jewels or crystals to catch the sunlight. In another, I use the sequined type. On occasion, I’ll hang beautiful daisies or ladybugs among the butterflies for a truly magical feel. Close to Easter, we add bunny decorations and eggs into the mix for an egg hunt.

During the Easter season, we celebrate love and beauty of the soul. Pulling Easter in through the though of life renewal carries special meaning for our family and we all look forward to the season. I was thrilled this year when my daughter asked me to help decorate the kids’ game room, too. Her love of my butterfly collection, especially the nylon butterflies with the jewels and sequins, led me to know exactly what we would do for the kids’ game room.

We added not only the nylon butterflies and springtime decorations but also cloud wall stickers and even some beautifully decorated alphabet letters in a springtime theme. The room now shines. We created an inspiring and exciting place to enjoy the wonder and newness of spring and get ready for the fun and renewal of Easter.

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Easter thoughts: What ever was the son of God thinking at the time of his crucifixion?

Easter is a time where we celebrate to commemorate the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ. People all over the world of different cultures celebrate this miraculous rising. The season of spring is a time for new beginnings - new life. Nature’s beauty bounces back with lush jade privets - leafy trees in forty shades of green and flowers in full bloom. What with the lord Jesus Christ and new plant growth then who are we to disbelieve in the fact that there is life after death.

Easter thoughts: What ever was the son of God thinking at the time of his crucifixion?

Remember the lord by rejoicing - make this Easter extra special by sending close friends and family a Happy Card personalized with your own Easter thoughts put into words. Remember Easter is a time for forgiveness.

Remember the lord by baking a cake - pipe cream an Easter thought onto the sweet confection. Light 12 candles. You can donate this offering to the local chapel as a way of thanking Jesus Christ for coming back to watch over us. Remember Easter is a time for forgiveness.

Easter thoughts: What ever was the son of God thinking at the time of his crucifixion?

Remember the lord by throwing a dinner party - ask each guest to bring along a candle. Have the guests light the candle just as you are about to say grace thanking the lord for what you are about to receive. Remember Easter is a time for forgiveness.

Remember the lord with a prayer gathering among friends and family to let Jesus Christ know that he is in your thoughts at Easter. Remember Easter is a time for forgiveness.

Remember the lord by the giving of goodwill gestures. Easter time does not change situations in famine stricken countries nor for the abused child. Killings still continue with acts of terrorism which is a major concern spreading like an epidemic among loyalists. You can help by including these unfortunate people in the way of a donation as your Easter goodwill gesture - a couple of coppers to the campaign charities involved with fighting a good cause for peace can make a lot of difference to the starving and the abused.

We all feel saddened by Jesus Christ and his tortured passing but you can not turn back the clock. What is that true saying? you can not put a good man down and how very true are those words that were spoken.

Easter thoughts: What ever was the son of God thinking at the time of his crucifixion?

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

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We all probably know that each country has its own ever so slightly different celebrations during the Easter period, be it dousing people in water or children covering their faces in soot. What people may not realise is that even in Britain, many regions have their own special traditions.

Wales is proud to have its own Easter traditions which stretch back centuries. Its Easter celebrations start on Suly Blodau (Sunday of Flowers) or as it’s more commonly know Palm Sunday. On this day it is customary to decorate the graves in churchyards with beautiful floral arrangements in readiness for Easter and the festival of the Resurrection. Before the graves are decorated they are often cleaned, weeded and even whitewashed before garlands of daffodils, rosemary, rue, primroses and crocuses and placed.

Y Groglith is Welsh for Good Friday and has a number of customs associated with it. One of the most well known is one which occurs in Tenby along the Pembrokeshire coast. On this day all business with in the town was suspended with even horse and carts stopped and not a person to been seen on the streets anywhere. People would then walk barefoot to the church in order not to disturb the earth, Jesus’ burial place. There was also a custom of “making Christ’s bed” which saw long reeds gathered from the river and woven to gather by the children of the town. The children would use the reeds to create the figure of a man and then laid them upon wood crosses and leave them in quite fields to rest in peace.

Llun y Pasg is Welsh for Easter Monday. As with many customs and rituals in Wales the hills and mountains play an integral part and Easter Monday celebrations are no exceptions. The festivities start earlier on Easter Monday with a procession to the top of nearby mountains before the sun has even risen. Crowds then watch the sunrise in honour of the resurrection. Some areas of Wales are known to carry bowls of water to the summit in order to reflect the rising sun while some very energetic people were said to have performed three somersaults as the sun rises.

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Well, it can, but it doesn’t always.

No doubt the original author of this question is referring to the love between two people. Not the love of a parent for a child, or vice versa. That is love which rarely ever ends. It is completely unconditional and can surmount any number of difficulties and problems.

But between two people love can behave in many ways. For some it is suddenly realised; for others it grows almost surreptitiously, creeping up gently on the unsuspecting - making them aware of feelings they never thought they had.

It is a remarkable experience to become aware suddenly that you love someone. Perhaps it is someone you have known for many years as a friend. Out of the blue, the love you feel for them can hit you right between the eyes.

Charles Dickens described this beautifully in the scene between David Copperfield and Agnes. They had been childhood friends, always close confidantes. Agnes had supported him through his marriage to Dora and after Dora’s death. David had gone away to attempt to restart his life, but on returning, his eyes are suddenly opened, and he tells Agnes, ‘I went away loving you, I stayed away loving you, I came back loving you.’

When love is young and new it carries an urgency which sweeps aside all possible problems and drawbacks. Everything and everyone is seen through rose-colored glasses, particularly the one we love. We are carried away and carried along by the sheer power of the emotion involved. Nothing, we think, could possibly happen to change the way I feel today.

But things do change. Lives can change. People can change. And as these changes take place cracks and strains can begin to appear in what had previously been thought of as the most solid structure imaginable - your love.

When this happens it is perfectly possible for the two people involved to work on the new situation, to solve the new problems, and to save the love they have for each other, although that love may become transmuted along the way into quite a different thing. Wonderful and worth striving for in its own way, but different.

However, sometimes, if nothing is done, the love ends. It just dies. It may die imperceptibly. What was love can become mutual tolerance and eventually mutual intolerance - and then the love is probably lost for good.

Of course, this is desperately sad whenever it happens, and it can take some time to get over the experience. But perhaps this is a more realistic approach to life. To love, to lose the love and then to find love again with someone else. Is this not preferable to continuing a situation of mutual tolerance at best, when love has gone and all the passion and desire remains just a vague memory?

Love does end, but not always, thank goodness.

Keith Redfern

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Considered the revered cradle of Christianity, France commemorates Easter with huge cheering and energy. The whole nation of the French flag parties in the Eastertide events and shops are skilfully adorned with chickens, fish, bells and dark and white chocolate rabbits.

Easter Fish

‘Poisson d’Avril’ (April Fish) is the French Easter fish that appears on April 1st when French kids enjoy in playing a sort of ‘April Fool’s’ prank. They stick fish made from paper to the back of grown-ups.

Flying Bells

Flying Bells or Cloche Volant is a different significant element of France’s Easter practices. On Good Friday, French Catholics deem that every church bell in France take off to the Vatican City in Rome, taking with them the sadness and pain of people who grieve the crucifixion of Jesus on that day. The flying bells go back on the morning of Easter Sunday and have with them piles of eggs and chocolates.

Easter Eggs

Kids awaken on Easter Sunday and check the nests they put in the yard or grounds, looking forward to getting well adorned Easter eggs. The game of rolling uncooked eggs on an incline is French tradition during Easter. According to myths, the last egg was the winning egg and represented the stone that is spun over the tomb of Jesus. Having fun with the eggs is one of the much-loved activities of children in Easter. The kids play a game wherein the eggs are tossed in the air and they have to catch them.

Traditional Banquet

In France, people usually cook lamb during Easter. A lot of Christian homes prepare ‘Gigot D’agneau’ or leg of lamb particularly for this event.

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