Are we advantaged
by knowing what they did not know?
Those eleven disciples
in despair that Saturday morn’
Their master, their teacher
dead, laying in the tomb
They did not know the joy,
the power, the triumph
They did not already know
The miracle of Easter,
as we do (if we truly do).
Yes, we do not know
cannot truly feel
their despair in the darkness, Saturday
But, in the same way
we experience a faint echo
of their utter transformation, their abject joy
the blinding brilliance
come Easter morn’.
So embrace their suffering,
their mourning this day
as we wait, wondering, as they did
what will happen,
waiting, in pain and loss,
not knowing what came on Easter
April 11, 2009
John 18:1-19:42
Job 14:1-14
Upper Room Disciplines 2009 – April 10, 2009
Upper Room Disciplines 2009 – April 11, 2009
Alive Now – April 11, 2009,
“The Great Vigil of Easter”
Saturday, April 11, 2009
What they didn’t know
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