It is just a few days after Easter as I write this so I am spending a lot of time thinking about resurrection and what that means for me and for the churches I work with. I find myself thinking as well about perspective and how where we stand can make a huge difference in how we experience the world.
Sitting in the pews of many churches these days you might at first perceive a sense of scarcity: fewer people, less energy, greater space. All of this is an accurate way of experiencing reality. So, too, in the day after the crucifixion, there was a vast emptiness. Space that was formerly filled with promise was ostensibly gone.
Energy abhors a vacuum so when space is created something comes to fill it; in those first few hours after Jesus’ death grief filled the space that he had occupied.
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