The Day After…
The Lenten Journey has ended, Holy Week is over, and Easter Sunday has come and gone. It was an incredible six weeks in my life, I hope it was in yours also. Unfortunately, when you take all the excitement of Holy Week and throw in way too much chocolate and way too much Easter buffet – the Monday after turns into a real crash and burn kinda day.
Let me tell you – I am spent! Even today as I sit and write this blog, I am just plain tired…But it is a good tired. No! It is a great tired! When I think of everything my savior did for me – I can’t help but become reenergized!
I’ve been reading in John 21 over the last 48 hours. It is kind of natural I guess, given the post resurrection celebration, to see what the disciples did when they found the empty tomb. If you are like me, you probably expected a party to end all parties! Jesus is alive! Quick, let’s go tell the world… But, no… There was no party – no celebration – no stop the presses type announcement.
What we find are the disciples going about their normal course of business. At least seven of them went back to fishing. I guess you can call it a post-Easter letdown. In actuality, it is kind of refreshing to see that they didn’t really know what to do, but it is also extremely disappointing. Refreshing because it showed they were human – and disappointing because they had a front row seat for everything that just happened and they just didn’t get it.
Where do you find yourself today? On the side that gets it – or the side that doesn’t get it?
Let me encourage you on your journey. Don’t let the day after be a letdown! Take this time to refocus yourself – refocus your energy – refocus your thoughts on the Jesus of Easter. Every week of the year should be a mini Holy Week because every Sunday of the year is a mini Easter!
We celebrate a risen Savior who is no longer in the tomb! I sure hope you get it…
Until next time…
Pastor Barry
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