Jesus of Nazareth -
Your birth, life, death, and resurrection orders all creation.
You go ahead of us and invite us to see You there - to meet You in places of promise and proclamation…restoration and (re)birth.
Like Mary Magdalene, Mary, and Salome, we find ourselves without words as we wonder how Your resurrection orders our lives.
Expecting blockage, they found the stone rolled away. Expecting loneliness, they found a companion. Expecting death, they found resurrection.
May Your resurrection break through our expectations and leave us slack-jawed with terror and amazement.
Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed!
Alleluia! Amen!