Christ In Winter:
Reflections on Faith & Life for the Times of Winter
THE QUARANTINED JESUS [Sat, 4-11-20]
Saturday. The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It’s usually called “Holy Saturday” in the
church calendar, but for Jesus, it must have been a good deal less than holy. It
probably should be called “Quarantine Saturday.”
It must have been like a
quarantine. In the tomb. No light. No disciples. No adoring crowds. Nothing… a
long boring stretch, waiting… for what? Did he know about the resurrection?
Maybe. Even so… we know there will be a resurrection of the world after this
corona virus has run its course, but that does not lessen the boredom and frustration
and the anxiety of the waiting.
I think this is the main
point of this day between Good Friday and Easter this year: Jesus is with us in
this time of boring anxiety, this time of fearful waiting. He’s been there,
done that.
The Christ story is not
just about God being with us in the pathos of sacrifice and the exultation of
resurrection. It’s about God being with us in the everyday getting-by, too.
John Robert McFarland
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