The Easter Season Continues--Didn't the Frogs Tell You?

Many people honored the highest day in the church year this past Sunday by dressing our absolutely best. Here I am pictured one Easter many, many years ago. Dressing in our most excellent way emphasizes how special the celebration of the Resurrection is. I have been thinking and reading on keeping the Easter season alive and special...recognizing it and living it. Reading, thinking and pondering like this can lead us in unique creative directions. I never would have guessed we'd connect frogs to Easter but we were inspired to create this stole.

This stole may be purchased on our website here.

Psalm 100 is the theme of this stole. Thanks to Ruth Boling's description of frogs as a Christian symbol we thoroughly enjoyed creating this design. In her book Come Worship With Me she writes: During dry months, many frogs hide under leaves or in soil to stay moist. When the rain returns, the frogs reappear just as suddenly as Jesus reappeared from death. Have you ever heard the "peepers" in early spring? These frogs sing like choirs of tiny angels.

This stole is on our website here and it's also at a special price on eBay this week here (shhhh! don't tell your colleagues or they might bid against you!)


Isn't it wonderful that Easter is not a one day holiday? 

Emergence from Lent to Easter

Purchase this stole here.

Flowers, products of the earth, suggest the cycle of life, death and resurrection in the round of the seasons. Flowers, springing from seed, suggest perpetual rebirth, and promise of fulfillment. In Christian symbolism the essence of the flower--it's growing characteristics, its shape, color, its scent--coordinate to make a unified whole.


In the region that I live in we use a lot of flowers that grow from bulbs to decorate our Easter worship spaces. Bulbed flowers remind us of the Resurrection as the glorious flower emerges from the seemingly dead bulb (the grave). This was our inspiration for the stole at left which can be purchased on the Carrot Top Studio website a similar version will list on eBay beginning April 7th here. 


The lily is the most typical flower associated with Easter symbolism. It has long been a symbol of purity, innocence and immortality and is the major botanical symbol of Mary. Often called the "white-robed apostles of hope," lilies were reportedly found growing in the Garden of Gethsemane after Christ's agony. Lore says that the beautiful white lilies sprung up where drops of Christ's sweat fell to the ground in his final hours.


As we emerge from Lent and prepare to celebrate the Easter season and you see a worship space 'decorated' with flowers think of the symbolism and let the visual image draw you closer to the joy and hope of the Resurrection.