Sunday, January 17, 2010
Interrupting a funeral
Three times in the Gospels, Jesus raises someone from the dead: Lazarus, a little girl, and this widow's son from Nain. This morning, we found out that an elderly woman at our church, Bill Tuori's aunt, Ilda Stevens, passed away quickly. Oh that Jesus would come to our village on Thursday and raise her from the dead. The truth is that he will. We will not see her alive again on this earth, but she will be alive with Christ and counted among the great cloud of witnesses we call the saints. My favorite part of today's reading is the crowd's reaction, "They all realized they were in a place of holy mystery, that God was at work among them. They were quietly worshipful and then noisily grateful." Could we be like that every Sunday at church?
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