Between Grief and Hope
Luke 24:1-12
The Women at the Tomb
“But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to the hands of sinners and be crucified and on the third day rise again.” Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.”
“At its deepest, grief can make it difficult to believe that we will ever be whole again, that we will ever know joy again, or that hope will ever visit us again. It will leave us believing we will feel this way forever. Yet grief holds strange graces that make it possible to enter into the wholeness that God continually desires for us, even as we continue to live with the pain of our loss.”
Jan Richardson from her book,
The Cure for Sorrow, A Book of Blessing for Times of Grief
It takes listening and looking to find blessings out of grief. Have you personally experienced a time when life has sprung out of death?
Where have you found life after death?
Tell us your resurrection story.