Shaken World and Shattered Expectations
I have had such a myriad of thoughts and emotions this weekend. Yesterday I had the privilege of taking a close friend to Scott’s grave for the first time. As I sit here thinking back over the time at the cemetery yesterday, I am struck with a few things. Being at the cemetery on Good Friday and talking about Scott’s death has really made me think about the emotions on the very first Good Friday. I can imagine the grief and despair flooding Jesus’s friends, disciples, and family. I don’t believe at that moment that any of them had any faith in Jesus returning from the dead. After all, other than a few people they had not seen anyone come back from the dead – and those people were raised from the dead by Jesus’s hand. I can picture Mary and Mary Magdalene approaching the tomb after the Sabbath. I can imagine the grief overwhelming them as they were facing the reality of Jesus’s death. Then seeing the Angel of the Lord roll away the stone and receiving the message of Jesu