“Easter Can Be Small, And Resurrection Come Slowly”
- w marzec 23rd, 2008 :: Kategoria podstawowa
“Easter Can Be Small and Resurrection Comes Slowly ”
The Reverend Victoria Weinstein
Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008
I saw a movie about the events of Jesus’ life when I was a young kid – not too tiny but young enough to be very impressionable. I remember one scene in particular, which appears in John’s gospel and only in that gospel. It’s a miracle moment, and what happens is that Jesus shows up at the house of his friends Mary and Martha to find that their brother and his good friend Lazarus has died. He’s been dead for four days. Mary and Martha are totally distraught, of course, and they yell at Jesus: if you had been here this wouldn’t have happened! The response comes in the shortest verse in the entire Bible. Two words: “Jesus wept.” Because he loved Lazarus too.
So the next thing we […]