Easter Flowers for Mom

It has been a long standing family tradition to give my mom flowers on Easter Sunday. I was thinking about this and I have to ask the question - WHY?

Don't get me wrong, I love dear old Ma, but why do we give her flowers on Easter? Did she rise from the dead for the forgiveness of my sins and make me a promise of eternal life? Last I checked, the answer is- NO! So why do I honor mom on a day dedicated to Jesus and HIS resurrection?

Come to think of it, St. Paul in the book of Ephesians calls husbands to be Christ to his family. I think if anyone in the family should have been honored, it should have been dad, but I don't even think that's appropriate.

I think this is just another sentimental, feminized tradition that has crept into the church that makes it all about the ladies, enables their narcissism and puts Jesus on the back burner in honor of the cult of the goddess.

I can't begin to tell you how many times I have to say no to the ladies in the church because they want to do some sort of emotive, nonsensical thing to make them feel all warm and gushy in the service. HEY LADY, CHURCH AINT ABOUT YOUR EMOTIONS!

This year, I donated flowers to the church and asked that there be no memorial attached to them except this - Soli Deo Gloria. I also suggested (with a smirk) that they should be dedicated "to all the girls I loved before."

If it is about you, it's not about Jesus and if it isn't about Jesus, it Just isn't Christian.

Bitterly yours
The Ranting Reverend