"In Our End is Our Beginning"

John 20:1-18



Looking in the rear view mirror is a good idea, but not if that is the only place you're looking.  If you only look in the mirror, and not out the windshield, you are likely going to crash. And that's never pretty, is it?

The women at the tomb and the disciples were despondent. They were beside themselves. One who they truly believed to be their Messiah was killed. Dead. Entombed.  They truly did not know where to turn. So they retreated, hid within their own walls and within their own sadness, and began to only look in the rear view mirror.

And yet, Jesus appears to Mary outside the tomb.  And when she finally realizes it is, indeed, Jesus she cries "Rabbouni!" (teacher)

and he says to her

"Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus implores her to do two things: 1) don't stay focused on the rear view mirror and 2)Go and tell the others that you are changing course... that a new direction on this road is clear to you now.  

That is what Easter brings to us.  New direction. Change of course.  Unexpected detour down an unfamiliar, even unbelievable road.  

So just when we think we have reached the end of the road.. we see that it isn't the end, it just curves into a new beginning.

What unexpected curves have you encountered on the highway of life? How did they become blessings?  What sense of resurrection do you feel in your life today?

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