{"id":16614,"date":"2026-03-10T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/a-devotion-for-easter-monday\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:01:57","slug":"a-devotion-for-easter-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/daily-devotions\/holiday-devotions\/a-devotion-for-easter-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Devotion for Easter Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoy this Easter Monday devotion. Read it before saying your Easter prayers<\/a>, or with the whole family as you clean up from your Easter celebrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am with you always\u2026\u201dMatthew 28:20<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Monday, the day after Easter.\u00a0 Yesterday, when the children and grandchildren left, my wife, Tib, and I went through the usual post-holiday letdown. We coped with it as we always do\u2013cleaning up. I collected left-behind jelly beans before they could be trod into the rug, picked up a ball of colored foil where someone had missed a wastebasket, found a half-eaten chocolate rabbit under one of the kids\u2019 beds.<\/p>\n

Tib gathered the wicker baskets and carried them up to the attic, then got out the vacuum cleaner and attacked the escaped Easter grass.\u00a0 How did the shiny green strands get so far from the bedrooms where we had unpacked the baskets?<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Easter Story in 14 Bible Passages<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I plucked a couple from the back of the sofa in the living room, found one on my sweater sleeve, even extracted one from the butter dish. But Tib and I didn\u2019t give up; we searched and swept until eventually we had picked up the very last one. And then last night, as I started upstairs to bed, a green sliver winked at me from the riser.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been the same this morning. I\u2019ve found three strands already in places where I\u2019d already looked. I was getting exasperated with the stuff until I thought, Wait! Aren\u2019t these the little tokens I used all last week to assure me that\u2013whatever the grief or frustration or disappointment\u2013Easter will come?<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe I should change my attitude about these elusive strips of grass mysteriously popping up at unexpected times and places. Last week, I chose these spots as forecasts of the Easter message. Suppose I let the grass choose for me now. Suppose in the future, each time I catch sight of a piece of it, I let it remind me that Easter is not a day. It\u2019s a promise.<\/p>\n

Risen Lord, keep the glory of Your Resurrection before me all the year through.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ MORE ABOUT EASTER MONDAY AND DEVOTIONS:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n