So it is late in the day on Tuesday of Holy Week. My goal to write a daily reflection has fallen way behind. I'll start again after Easter. It isn't that I'm too busy, and it isn't that I'm not doing a devotion. I guess I have just been doing it away from the computer. And those who know me know I like to change it up, so I am doing something different than reading the daily texts for each day.
Anyway, it is Tuesday of Holy Week. So far, I am very calm and reflective. I have some laundry going, I had a nice dinner out with a friend, lunch with a colleague, and a funeral. I also presided at a memorial service Saturday.
All this to say, I really am feeling the power of resurrection, and I feel a little guilty saying that before Good Friday. Yet I have witnessed death.
I was not present when either died, but I witnessed death as I spoke with the families, with friends, with people who loved the person. Loss, grief, thankfulness, tears. And what a power the words of Jesus are at this time. This week as I shared with two families the promise of life, resurrected life, the words mean so much. During this holiest of weeks, I had the privilege of proclaiming that death does not win. Death does not have dominion over Jesus, and therefore not over us. Jesus, according to the gospel of John has gone before us to prepare a place.
I am moved by the love of these families, the witnesses of a young person who worked hard to help out one of the families, the power of prayers, the power of placing the loved one in the arms of our savior. Earth to earth, dust to dust.... Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return--AND just as Christ was raised from the dead, we too will live a new life.
Yes, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday must come before Easter, but I know the power of the resurrection! And if I dare say, Alleluia!!!
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