Laying Down Your Life
If there is one thing the Resurrection shows us, it is God’s love. And if there is one thing I am called to as a child of God, it is to lay down my life for love of God and others. It sounds so simple, and we all know how hard it is. Some people […]
All is Well
What a difference a day makes. This week’s gospel reading* from Luke opens in the evening hours of the third day following Jesus’ crucifixion. It culminates in the dawning of a new understanding of relationship with God, as followers of Christ. The transformative experience begins at dawn that day, with the discovery of the empty […]
Persistent Caller
Gordon Cosby used to say that call is “big, impossible and persistent.” And each time my call has changed form, it has felt that way to me. Big because it’s more than I can manage without doing a serious purge of current obligations. Impossible to accomplish alone so I will need to involve others. And […]
Is It Enough?
Mary Magdalene encounters an empty tomb and runs to tell the others. They come but are able to see no significance in this emptiness. And so they leave.* Mary, on the other hand, brimming with expectancy, suddenly sees Jesus in the emptiness. Death, for Mary, does not steal him away from her. In the dark […]
