Waiting Saturday - by Don Neuendorf
A day of worship. A day of rest. A day on which Jesus' disciples would have met, perhaps at a synagogue, as was Jesus' regular practice. Would they want to talk or not? What would there be to say?
I often compare our lives to that Saturday. We can easily see the tragedy, the death or failure of things in our lives. Sickness is quite visible. And sin. But we cannot so easily see the Easter Sunday that hasn't yet arrived. Worse yet, we often cannot even see the Easter that we know has already come!
I take a perverse comfort from this, that Jesus' enemies have, for 2,000 years, sought to disprove his resurrection. They have sought for all that time to keep him in his grave. And they still have not succeeded.
Today would be a good day to read this article by Thomas Madden, historian. It's the latest attack by the enemies of Christ - and their latest defeat.