As we sit with the early morning rain today, I’m leaning into that powerful question the angels asked the women at the tomb: "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" It’s a challenge for all of us to stop searching for Jesus in the "dead" places of our lives—our past mistakes, our old shames, or the general ugliness of the world—and instead look for Him where life, grace, and beauty are actually breaking through. Even though the very first sermon of the Resurrection was dismissed by the apostles as an "idle tale," those women stayed faithful to what they had seen, reminding us that while we can’t control whether people are ready to hear the Good News, we are still called to proclaim it. We should take heart knowing that even when our witness feels ignored, God is often at work in the "wondering" hearts of those around us, and our only job is to keep pointing toward the One who is fully alive and walking beside us today.

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