Easterrific!
Carter is busy coining new words. One is thumbernail, meaning the nail on your thumb. Another new one is ‘Easterrific!’ Definitely said with an exclamation point attached. He will say something is Easterrific “just like Jesus.” I’m taking this to mean that he finds such a thing unbelievably great.
And isn’t that exactly what Jesus is? Unbelievably great. I can scarcely wrap my mind around God’s love for us through Christ Jesus. It brings me to my knees quite literally. I am in awe that God loves me that much. I hope during this Easter time you’ve reflected on this love for you, for all of us. It is a conundrum as Paul states in Ephesians. He prays we can understand the enormity of God’s love through Jesus Christ while at the same time accepting that the why and how of God’s love is not something we will comprehend. Today it is hard for us to accept mystery in anything especially in a God we commit our lives to. But in Christianity there is a lot of mystery because, well, we’re not God! (Thank God!) And the love of God is a mystery, one in which we may see the enormity but not how it is sustained or true. We must trust with faithful hearts that it just is.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Check out all of Ephesians 3:14-21 (These verses were read at our wedding!)
