I came that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10b)
There is a crisp, somber air that weighs heavy on the week before Easter. It is as the environment is still vibrating from the broken and confident plea from our Lord; “it is finished”. On a week meant to remember the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, we must also remember the doubt of Saturday. In many ways we live in a constant Saturday. The persistent ache of wonder and questioning the location of Christ is ever present as our days grow increasingly dim. This doesn’t feel very abundant.
Looking within church walls we would be hard pressed to find the type of life Jesus came to give us. I have an abundance of questions, an abundance of fear, an abundance of unresolved conflict, but life? Not in the purest sense. Yet I believe we miss what this means. Perhaps an abundance of life is found only in the abundance of presence of our Lord in the everyday. Perhaps He is enough. A constant searching and surrender is what Saturday calls for. May we get to the point in our faith where we no longer define life by material but by the spiritual. That the shadow of the cross might merge with the shadow of the stone rolled away for our freedom. Easter is coming.
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