When Recognition Dawns
John 20:1-18, CEB · Witnesses: Encountering Jesus When It Matters Most
When you stepped outside this morning, you saw it: clear blue sky, not a cloud in sight. It’s cold out there, thirty-five degrees when most of you left the house. But that sky. The sun is already at work, and by this afternoon it’ll push into the upper sixties. The winter wheat out past the city limits is green. The trees along Kansas Avenue are starting to bud.
It looks like Easter out there this morning, even if it doesn’t quite feel like it yet. The signs of new life are visible before we feel them in our bones. That’s actually a fitting way to arrive at Easter. We expect resurrection to feel dramatic, unmistakable. But sometimes the new life is already visible, already underway, before anyone recognizes it.
