The stage is set. No one can believe what took place on Good Friday. How Jesus was convicted of that which he did not do. How he hung on the cross after suffering so much cruelty and finally breathed his last breath. His body was taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb.
For some that may have been the end of the story, but not for the women who followed him for so long. They felt compelled to go and take care of his body. To offer him a gift, like the gift of life and forgiveness that he had offered them. So they journeyed to the tomb.
All too often we rush into the celebration of Easter, which is both a day and a whole season in the life to the church. We rush from celebration to celebration, when really Jesus is inviting us to go on a journey towards resurrection.
Just as we rush towards the Easter celebration without sitting in the grief of what proceeded it, so we want to rush to healing and redemption in our own lives. May we take time this Easter season to be on a journey towards wholeness, seeing the beauty of God making a mosaic out of our lives, and fully living into the gift of what is being offered to each of us.
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