Daily Readings: John 20 and Psalm 36
Yesterday, believers all over the world gathered to celebrate and to sing the praises of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who was crucified, dead and buried … but then, on the morning of the 3rd day, was raised to life again by the power of God! It’s such good news that we are reading John’s account of it today, to marvel at the mystery and the wonder, all over again.
I stumbled across a magnificent sonnet yesterday, written by the contemporary English poet, Malcolm Guite, which is deeply meaningful and moving, and I offer it to you as a way to reflect on that first encounter between Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the Garden (v.1-16). May the Lord use it to move your heart and speak to your soul.
He blesses every love which weeps and grieves
Malcolm Guite ~ Easter Dawn
And now he blesses hers who stood and wept
And would not be consoled, or leave her love’s
Last touching place, but watched as low light crept
Up from the east. A sound behind her stirs
A scatter of bright birdsong through the air.
She turns, but cannot focus through her tears,
Or recognise the Gardener standing there.
She hardly hears his gentle question ‘Why,
Why are you weeping?’, or sees the play of light
That brightens as she chokes out her reply
‘They took my love away, my day is night’
And then she hears her name, she hears Love say
The Word that turns her night, and ours, to Day.
Life Application: Is there someone who needs to hear from you today? Someone who simply needs to hear your voice on the other end of a phone call, greeting them by name and telling them its all going to be okay, because Jesus is with them? Make that call.
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