After Like 24:1-12
Stunned. Overwhelmed.
The three women were
the first to hear the news.
Then they remembered
his words, but was he
really serious? He would
rise on the third day?
They hurried to tell
the others, the eleven and
the rest, with a not
entirely unexpected
response: skepticism,
doubts, perhaps a trace
of ridicule, surly this was
idle talk and speculative
rumor. A story, in other
words, a tale, and it was
somewhat cruel of them
to repeat it. But the one
called the rock listened;
something struck him
as true, and he raced
to the tomb, finding it
just as the women had
said. It was empty.
He was gone.
Photograph by Logan Weaver via Unsplash. Used with permission.
Some Sunday Readings
Reading as Rebellion – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
Christianity in China – Ndrew Wilson at Tabletalk.
Field of Bounty and of Grief – Steven Searcy at Mere Orthodoxy. Related: Four Poems from The Locust Years by Paul Pastor – Rabbit Room Poetry.
“On Shakespeare. 1630,” poem by John Milton – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally” Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem – Elaine Wang at Literary Hub.
How the West Lost Its Soul – Paul Kingsnorth at The Free Press.
