Why Our Family Stopped Celebrating Easter
By this point in our journey, we had already been observing the biblical feasts for a few years. Through those celebrations, we were discovering a different rhythm of remembering God’s story—one that was rooted directly in Scripture.
So slowly, and carefully, we stepped away from Easter as well.
It wasn’t easy.
Our children had grown up with these traditions. By then they were older, and some of them had already started families of their own. The traditions we had once practiced together had now been passed down to them.
To this day, some of them still celebrate Easter, and we understand where they are in their journey because we were there once too.
For us, it’s not about declaring that others are wrong.
It’s about following the convictions the Lord placed on our hearts.
At that time—and still today—we believed that God was leading us to let go of Easter, not because we were rejecting Jesus or His resurrection, but because we could no longer ignore the origins we had discovered.
It felt as though a blanket had been pulled back from our eyes.
Once we saw it, we had a choice: ignore what we had learned and continue as before, or follow where we felt God was leading us.
For our family, the answer became clear.
So Easter quietly became another tradition we let go of.
But what surprised us most was this:
We didn’t stop celebrating.
In fact, we were celebrating even more.
We were simply celebrating different things—things we were discovering directly in Scripture.
We began observing the biblical feasts, learning their meaning, and adding our own family traditions around them. We read together. We shared meals. We reflected on what God had done and what He continues to do.
The celebrations didn’t disappear.
They simply changed.
And slowly, step by step, we continued letting go of what we felt the Lord was asking us to release—while holding onto what He was placing in front of us instead.
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