Our faith in the risen Christ can bring great joy into our lives. That joy is more enduring than any hardship and suffering that comes into our lives through following Christ.
Lazarus, for Jesus, was asleep. Pointing out to us that death is not the end, but a transition to a new life. That life comes to us through the dying and rising of the Lord Jesus.
Curiosity can be healthy or sinful depending. Curiosity that leads us to the true Light is healthy. Curiosity that leads away from the light that God gives into darkness is sinful.
Where do we go to satisfying the deep yearnings of our lives. If we go that which the world offers, we constantly come back for more. If we go to Jesus, we find an inexhaustible source that satisfies our deepest longings.
As Jesus was sent by the Holy Spirit into the desert, we are sent into the desert of Lent to intensify our prayer, to sacrifice and to give alms. Let us respond to the grace of this Sacred Season.