Sunlight [Easter 3B - Luke 24:36b-48]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Luke 24:36b-48 Sunlight I wonder if there was a window in the room, that room in which the remaining eleven disciples were hidden. When I hear this story, that’s just what I always wonder. One might think I would puzzle over the immense theological implications of this post-resurrection passage, but honestly, I’m usually just trying to figure out the lighting. In the imaginations of my mind there is always this rogue beam of light, pouring in through the stubborn space between two ragged, sun-bleached curtains. And it spotlights the lazy, suspended dusts, hanging in mid-air like unfortunate abductees caught in a tractor beam. And then, without a sound, without warning, Jesus enters from stage left, but no one knows how he got in because that spotlight is fixed, illuminating an unremarkable floor tile, rather than the living miracle greeting the stunned occupants. There is nothin...