A lighter look at Easter

I read a horror story recently. Apparently retailers are
trying very hard to turn Easter into Christmas. I am not sure
how you turn a birth into a death and resurrection but where
profit and money are concerned, I guess, miracles can happen.

I know commercial retailers are not looking at it
from a Christian angle and I also know, some people will start jumping up and down, reminding us that both Christmas and Easter have Pagan origins.

In my opinion, that only gives Pagans the right to complain. If not, don’t exploit Paganism to make a cheap point.

Also,will those jumping-up-and-down people explain how some people, who can’t tell the difference between Lent and length, now piously give up chocolates, crisps, alcohol and other ‘bad’ stuff, 'for Lent' to detoxify their body, not so much their soul?

Embarrassingly, I now sound  preachy. Not my intention at all, but when I read that retailers are doing their very best to

commercialise Easter by way of encouraging consumers

to buy Easter presents and decorations, I get a bit grumpy.

I start to imagine a huge lit up Easter Egg hanging on my

front door, and children making lists and leaving carrots
for the Easter Bunny, who apparently will  burrow into
their living rooms in the middle of the night, with loads
of presents for them.

Neither I, nor my credit card, can handle another annual ‘wish list’.

So let’s keep Easter the way it is.

Overindulge in chocolate and alcohol after 40 days of abstinence!