Easter can be a challenging time.
For one thing, there’s the saturating of egg-based puns. Everything is an eggs-cellent eggs-stravaganza. Yes, we get it, very clever.
Then there are the final temptations. It can feel like Lent has gone on forever.
But all that’s fine – you can handle that.
The real struggle comes from what makes this time of year so special: it’s a holy, sacred time, celebrating the greatest act of love and sacrifice in the universe.
It’d be wonderful if everyone saw it that way.
Instead, we get casual heresies from folks who owe their liberty and education to their Christian forefathers. Few cultures through history saw the individual as important or the world as worth saving – it’s why Christians fought (and fight) against slavery, and built the first universities.
Even so, while blind to the story of Chesterton’s Fence they find themselves in, they think we can just do away with all that religion stuff and keep the benefits.
Ultimately, it’s their choice – and their loss.
But it’s not always easy to be so stoic.
If more you adore Jesus for what he did, the harder it can be to stomach indifference towards it.
Stomach it you must, though.
All you can do is defend the faith in your own way.
And it helps if you equip yourself with the right psychological tools.
Shields to protect yourself and beacons to light the way for others.
Things like these: