Brewed Awakening
Every Sunday morning, Carol and The Gent kick back in bed with coffee in hand and the week’s hottest headlines on their minds. Brewed Awakening is part pillow talk, part no-nonsense commentary—strong opinions served as fresh as the coffee, with zero sugarcoating. From sharp debates to playful banter (and maybe a little marital side-eye), they prove that the best conversations happen before you even get out of bed.
Brewed Awakening
Resurrection Reflections: Finding Meaning Beyond Easter Eggs
"He is risen!" These powerful words launch us into a deeply reflective Easter conversation about when the true meaning of resurrection first pierced our hearts. While chocolate bunnies and colorful eggs dominate childhood memories, Carol and Carrie explore that pivotal moment when Easter's profound significance finally clicks—whether as children, teenagers, or even decades into adulthood.
The most striking revelation comes when we pause to consider Easter not as religious mythology but as documented history. "It happened," we emphasize, marveling at how an event from two thousand years ago continues to transform billions of lives today. This historical reality gives weight to our spiritual reflections, challenging listeners to move beyond superficial celebrations to embrace resurrection's life-changing message.
Through personal stories of Bible study, church experiences, and watching grandchildren discover Easter joy, we weave together the beautiful tapestry of tradition and truth. The springtime setting of Easter—with budding trees and blooming flowers—provides the perfect backdrop for discussing spiritual rebirth. We suggest that even secular traditions like egg hunts serve a meaningful purpose, allowing older generations to witness the vitality of youth while contemplating eternal life. Whether you're a lifelong believer or someone curious about Easter's deeper significance, this episode invites you to reflect on when resurrection's message first touched your heart—and how it continues to transform your life today. Share your Easter traditions with us and join the conversation about how ancient truth speaks to contemporary hearts.
Wake up, it's time for the podcast! Happy Sunday!
He is risen. He is not here. Happy Easter everyone.
Speaker 2:Happy Easter, that is true.
Speaker 1:Welcome one and all. This is Brood Awakening with Carol and Carrie.
Speaker 2:The coffee is good, the conversation is lively and it's Easter Sunday.
Speaker 1:Yep, so I guess I wanted to talk about, get right on into it. What does Easter? I was thinking today, this morning, what Easter means, and I guess my question is when do you remember you know the message of Easter? You know, when we were kids it was all about hunting eggs and you know the Easter bunny and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, sometimes so for some people, I mean for some people, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:But as a child growing up, when do you think the message of the real meaning of Easter, what happened and what happened for us? When did that first, you know, kind of see, start seeping in for you? Was it as a child? Was it a young adult? I mean, you know, I went to church with my grandparents and I was raised, you know, to believe. I went to church camp and you know, I remember the first time, I remember the time, first time, first time, that I was saved. It was at church camp with another, with a teenager, actually a counselor, um, but I didn't really, you know, did I know what it meant? I mean, we were told you were talking about it earlier we were told what it meant, but when did we finally, you know kind of realize what it really was all about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, that's one of those things you, you, I think comes in time when people have different, not perceptions, but different ways of going about. That. You know, I don't think as a child or as a kid. You know you heard the stories, you know about the crucifixion, and then you know his entombment, and then you know they came to the tomb and found the rock had been moved and looked and he was gone. And you, you know, they came to the tomb and found the rock had been moved and he was gone.
Speaker 2:And you're like, okay, but you know, as a kid you didn't know what that meant. And then you were told, well, he did this to, you know, to rid your sins and so that you could go to heaven and all that stuff. And like, still as a kid, oh, okay, because you didn't really understand what the idea of. You know, everybody has that innate ability in their minds. You know the difference between good and bad that is true, no matter what people say. And so you knew, okay, your sins were, but really as a kid you didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 2:But over time you started to understand how dramatic and how much of a miracle and what Christ did in his life came to be. It came more prevalent or more understanding. You came to a bigger understanding of what these things were, and so some people that might be 20, 30, 40, some people that might be 60 years old before they go oh wow, that's something, and you think about it in these terms too. It's been how many years since that happened. So, oh, wow, you know that's something, you know and you think about it in these terms too. It's been how many years since that happened? Yeah, and it's still pretty prevalent in a lot of people's minds. Yeah, so that was, you know, pretty big event going on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Pretty big event.
Speaker 1:Yes, pretty big event.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I event, yeah, humanity um you know, that wasn't just something that you know we. It happens every other over every other year, right, you know? Right, so it's something it's something to be very mindful of it's something to keep your.
Speaker 1:You know, I never thought about it like that, like you just pictured you. It's a thing that happened in history, that is, I mean, it happened. Oh yeah, absolutely it really happened, yeah, and and now I think today we, some of us, look at it like it was just a story.
Speaker 2:It's just, but it happened yeah, well, that's why you know that's one of those good things that you want to keep reminding and and plugging into people, and especially your kids, you know. Tell them what the meaning of that is and how you know just kind of reinforce that, that ingrain that into them yes, you know that he died on the cross to save our sins and he came back as a resurrection, as another miracle to show us.
Speaker 2:You know the love that he had and you know, once your soul, your body, quits functioning you know that's what your soul does it rises up to be with God.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:It's pretty powerful stuff really when you think about it. Yeah, couple that with coffee and it's a pretty mind-blowing experience. Yes, it really is.
Speaker 1:I remember going to church camp and being around my my mom all my mom all loved jesus and she helped. She, you know, she would tell us stories and she was the one person that said you should read the bible. It's really something. And I'd be like, yeah, and I had this. You know, I'd go to church with my grandparents and go to church camp and I had this idea, you know, of what they, with what preachers or whatever, shared with kids and teenagers, and I had this, this juvenile image of what the message meant, or what I thought it meant, and what I learned and what I was told. And it was very juvenile, yeah, and until I, as an adult, I started reading and studying and I was like Whoa, especially in recent times recent now for me listening to the Bible in a year, actually listening to the Bible, because the Bible was meant to be listened to, not just read, I think, and I was. It's amazing what you learn in the Bible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you are much, much, much more schooled on the Bible than I am.
Speaker 1:So that's where your expertise on this topic takes off. Well, I don't know about expertise because you know, I take in what I. I guess I take in what I, what I take in.
Speaker 2:Well, let me ask you this question. This is kind of off topic for this, but how many times have you read the Bible?
Speaker 1:This is my first time actually listening to it all the way through.
Speaker 2:How many times have you read the Bible?
Speaker 1:I don't know, like all the way through, never, I don't know Like all the way through Never.
Speaker 2:Well, how many times have you attempted to read the Bible and done quite a Several. And done quite an extensive delve into it.
Speaker 1:Several.
Speaker 2:Okay, then you are much more schooled than 95% of the people that walk this earth.
Speaker 1:It's so massive. It's such a massive intake. Absolutely massive, it's such a such, it's a massive intake, absolutely, and it's a good. It's like, uh, some books that we know, other books or you read and you, you go back and read it a month later.
Speaker 2:It's like, oh, that's new, you know but she's showing my point that you're much more schooled on this topic than than I am. But again, we all have our individual experiences as to when our understanding of what today really means.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then, of course, watching the Passion of the Christ, watching the movie Passion of the. Have you seen the Passion of the?
Speaker 2:Christ. No, I haven't. That's why I say you are much more schooled on.
Speaker 1:We need to watch the Passion of the Christ today.
Speaker 2:Okay, I guess I have to change up all our scheduling.
Speaker 1:We'll watch it later today, unless you have a golf thing to watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that really throws me on the spot. Of course I don't have anything other than the heritage to watch.
Speaker 1:We'll plan to watch it. I didn't know that you had never seen it. I thought I told you that, oh wow, it's so. Oh wow, mm, yeah, mm, all right.
Speaker 2:And it was also a fun time because Easter coincides with spring and all the flowers and trees and everything are starting to green up and bud up and getting a lot of pretty flowers. So new life is coming. And I think part of that new life is that we do have Easter egg hunts and all that stuff because you get to see all the kids and their youthful activities coming to life and that gives kind of the soul a way of rejuvenating itself, seeing the kids rejoicing and finding that Easter egg and a youthfulness that comes back and says there's good in this world.
Speaker 1:So I think part of that tradition Easter egg hunting is kind of good for the older people as well, because they get to see the joy of the kids and the hope of the next generation. To appease the masses of the people, to have, you know, easter bunny and Easter eggs has nothing to do with Christ, which it, I guess, does not.
Speaker 2:I don't know Party poopers, but you know it's a good way to ease the kids into it too, I guess. Well, like I said, it's a good tradition not only to show them excitement in the day and, you know, tell them, be able to tell them the stories that correlate with the resurrection, and then for again, like I said, for older people, to see the kids rejoicing and the vitality of life and the vitality that you'll have on that risen day, you know, when you pass. You know, I think that's just a good thing.
Speaker 1:We had an Easter egg hunt here for the grand cam. He enjoyed it. He's so precious. He is precious. It was a delight to me to watch him walk around. Oh, I found another one in his little baby walk around. Oh, I found another one. And his little baby angel voice. Oh, I found another one. He is so precious.
Speaker 2:That's funny. We got back and we were out on our back porch and we were hiding him again and then he hit him and after he'd hide him and we'd go find him, he'd go find him for us, so we wouldn't get a chance to hide them. He'd go hide them and then, you know, guide us around and say look there's one, look there's one he would hide, though, 15 of them in one place though yeah, yeah, that was, that was funny.
Speaker 2:he found found a little hole in the front not a hole in the front, but a hole where the pillows were on one of the chairs and he shoved about 15 of them in there, like I'll hide them, all right here Underneath the pillow, not a hole in the chair. Yeah, that's why I'm going to hold the pillows, and he hid them all in there.
Speaker 2:But yeah, he had a good time he wanted us to find them, so he hid him, and then he'd show us where he hid him. Look, right here there's two. Yeah, look right over here there's a couple. Look, look over here All right, good job.
Speaker 1:I think he had a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's precious. He was precious, yeah, we even told him. So he's getting out of his terrible twos. We told him he had to eat breakfast before the Easter bunny would come and he actually got up and ate breakfast. Of course he negotiated his way through breakfast. Sure, you know sugar over here, two bites. And he jumped on it. He said two bites. I was like no, no To me it was like no, you're eating the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Well, he ate most of the fruit. He took two bites of pancakes.
Speaker 2:So but yeah, and he had part of your sausage balls.
Speaker 1:He did.
Speaker 2:We're coaxing him into being a meat eater. That's been hard.
Speaker 1:He loves fruit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's good. Yeah, I yeah, well, that's good. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:But you know, man, does not live on fruit alone. All right, well, we are at uh 13 minutes. Let's do a question of the day. All right, the gent has the question of the day most holidays, especially, we'd say, in the South.
Speaker 2:You know we have turkey for Thanksgiving and usually some kind of prime rib or something like that for Christmas, and then ham for New Year's. But Easter Our question today is what is your go-to meat to eat on Easter? Now, I know that's kind of a strange question to ask on Easter, but you know, some people it's lamb, some people it's ham, some people it's fish. What is your go-to meat to have for the family meal on Easter?
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:There you go. All right, that's the question of the day.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening. Go Dawgs meal on Easter.
Speaker 2:I like it. There you go.
Speaker 1:All right, that's the question of the day. Thanks for listening. Go Dawgs, happy Easter. Happy Easter, he is risen.