Easter light

We are still in the season of Easter. So let me share this quotation which I learned today from my translator friend, Sarah. "Mother Teresa once said, ‘Let nothing so fill you with sorrow that you forget the joy of the resurrection.’ However wintry it may be, whatever uncertainties, losses or bad news we are facing, may we have our eyes and hearts open to the living hope that Jesus offers us this Easter."  

Here's another one from C S Lewis, via the admirable Marijke Hoek. "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." I suppose I might say, "I believe in Jesus...."

I think this is how the reading for today begins, and it always sends a tingle down my spine. "Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb." Although it was dark, He had risen. Although she did not recognise Him, He called her by name. As Dick Douglas said in his sermon on Sunday, He meets each of us in our pain, to transform it.