It's Easter Sunday. I'll start off by talking about how it's very early in the morning. It's the in-between time - the time when one thing has come to an end but the next thing hasn't fully begun.

They bring spices to anoint the body, because that's what you do. This is where we're breaking down their relationship with Jesus: what he meant, what they had hoped he'd be. But his life was cut short. The angels show up and this is super confusing for the women who came to the tomb. So here let's dwell on the question they ask: why do you look for the living among the dead? Why do we look for hope in places that were never meant to sustain us? Why do we look for life in places that can't give it?

They run and tell the other disciples and it sounds like nonsense to them. Of course it does. It does to us, too. Then Peter runs back, looks in the tomb and sees the linens lying there. And he, too, leaves "wondering." Perplexed. The story begins with wondering and confusion and it ends there too. It's still early in the morning, when something has ended but the next thing has yet to begin. Maybe that's where this story meets us. Maybe we're in the confusing time, too.

It might be confusing now, we might be perplexed now, we might be living in a time where one thing is ending and the new one hasn’t begun yet. That’s okay, because a new world is coming where justice, righteousness, equality, and peace rule the day and darkness is no more. Let’s just keep doing our best to help make that happen. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven.

Speaker: Aaron Vis

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12

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