Show Me Your Resurrection [Easter 2021]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson John 20:1-18 Show Me Your Resurrection Easter first happened in a cemetery. Not under the sparkling sunlight of a spring morning. Not on the stunning verdant hills of a fantasy. Not in a field of pastel tulips. Not tangled in a prolonged cellophane celebration. Easter happened in a cemetery. Surrounded by death. Incubated by stubborn shadows. Carried in a broken heart. Greeted quite unexpectedly by a woman who no longer dreamed dreams. Mary Magdelene: About women, no one can know. There are some, Like this one, whose pain is a locked sepulchre; Their pain is buried in them, there is no fleeing From it and no casting it off … … Deep calls unto deep, a grave for a grave, A carcass drawing a carcass in that unhappy morning; Three days was this one in a grave, in a world that died In the cry in the afternoon. It is finished, The cry that dr...