Reflection for Third Sunday of Easter (C) – May 5, 2019
Reflection for Third Sunday of Easter (C) – May 5, 2019
Reflection
Their world has been turned upside down. Their best friend and teacher was crucified, but now he is alive. Mary Magdalene met him outside the tomb, though she thought he was a gardener, and Thomas touched his wounded side, though he thought it impossible to believe one could rise from the dead. No words could capture the events they witnessed in those days, and the miraculous nature of such inexplicable encounters must have left their minds racing. In the midst of such joyful chaos, they longed for the familiar, for a sense of normalcy, so they returned to what they knew best. “I am going fishing,” Peter declares, and together they launch onto the sea. How often do we too find our lives upset by the strange and exciting, by events both sorrowful and hopeful at the same time? How often do we find our heads spinning with unanswered questions about the past, about the present, about the future? How often do we ache for a return to something simpler, something recognizable, something we can easily manage and reason out? In the commotion of final exams, graduation, travel plans, and summer jobs, it is only natural to long for everything to settle into place. Yet even in the disciples’ boat, the voice of our risen Lord calls out from the shore. As our semester closes inside this Easter season, may we continue to listen for Jesus and have the courage to say with Peter, “It is the Lord.”…
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