Regardless of religious affiliation, Easter can be an event at which we pause to assess our own support systems of faith and belief.

Do we know where we are going and the path we need to follow to get there? The statement, search your feelings, is very true. How do we feel about ourselves and our progress in this life? Are we accomplishing what we want to do, or are we on some side road of useless and/or recreational diversion?

Take the time to reassess and re-evaluate. Search your feelings and follow your heart. Use your mind and plan out your futures, one step at a time.

As we look forward to the major events and accomplishments in our own personal lives, we are energized and motivated to move forward. We gain self-confidence and empower ourselves to move forward. We anticipate our futures with a desire to continue to achieve. And futures they are, for we move forward in all aspects of our lives, including social, professional, physical, personal, and religious.

We make contact with the object of our own personal faith and belief.

We become more than we have been before, and continue to move forward from success to success.

True, the little bunny that skitters about delivering little chocolate eggs is fun to participate in. Even to reminisce about in our childhood fantasies.

But what Easter really means is the opportunity of self-reflection and evaluation. Realizing who we are, where we are going, and what we can become.

And most importantly, we can ponder the why.