anticipating one very disappointed easter bunny...

(originally posted on my blog at the original groupee.com social networking site.)

just got off the phone with gina. at a tumultuous staff meeting this morning, it was decided that we do not have the budget for easter this year. our fabulous idea for an outreach is being shelved (we'll lose the $75 deposit i placed to hold the date after it was originally approved), and we'll have to do easter cost-free this year.

the news is that giving is down 25%, and expenses have gone up. there is literally no money to be had. we should've known that it would get harder before it got easier... maybe we did, and i was just in denial.

while disappointed on the surface, deep in the bottom of my heart, i feel a stirring, perhaps God whispering. perhaps this is an opportunity to highlight the true meaning of Easter, without the distraction of bunnies and eggs and chocolate. perhaps this is God calling us to a more focused celebration. "do this in remembrance of Me," i feel in my heart. Lord, what does that mean here?

and yet, the hardest part awaits: gently letting down our easter bunny.