An Easter Saturday reflection:
Easter Saturday may feel to some like a nothing day, but it’s also a reminder that so often we find ourselves in a space where we need to hold the tension between the pain of Good Friday and the joy and hope of Easter Sunday.
A reminder that so often in life we find ourselves in that very space with events that devastate us often overlapping with ones we want to celebrate and thrive in – how do you do joy and fear and pain and anger and anxiety and grief and celebration and love all at the same time?
Also, a reminder that often is a space we sit with in terms of ideas we hold that seem to contradict each other – love Jesus but struggle so much with the church – God is Just vs God is Love – blaming apartheid govt and present govt for the mess we find ourselves in…
Let today be a day of sitting in the uncertainty, or – as my friend Craig Stewart puts it – the disequilibrium – where it is uncomfortable and awkward and confusing and challenging and we find ourselves hoping that Sun turns out as we expect while fearing that Fri is what sticks
Don’t get stuck in Friday with the pain and betrayal and disloyalty and denial and mocking and whipping and torture and death and disillusionment…
But don’t rush to Sunday with it’s hope and promise and call to a new kingdom and freedom and defeat of death and reconnection and being sent out with a mission…
Because too much of our present lives resemble this Saturday – sitting with the pain of Friday so very close and real while the hope of Sunday is what keeps us going but may seem just out of reach. Learn to be present to all that today might have to offer us for every day…
Enjoy the gift of the Saturday in between…
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