Going Slow with Dr. Low

One thing Evangelical Christians have been accused of over the years is jumping too quickly into Easter Sunday.  In fact all over Facebook on Good Friday and Easter Saturday there are posts by well-meaning Christians encouraging us to remember that "Sunday's coming!"  This is true - Sunday is coming - Jesus did rise - but it's easy and tempting to jump there too quickly rather than sitting with the coldness and darkness of the tomb.

Don't rush through today.  Don't fast-forward to Easter Sunday even though we all know how it ends (or begins anew depending on how you look at it).  It's okay to sit in the uncomfortableness of a Leader of a revolution lying dead in a tomb, followers scattered, discouraged and frightened for their own lives.  It's important because there is a part of all of us that is dead, scared and hidden away.  It's important to wrestle with these parts of ourselves and bring them into the tomb to be transformed.  Easter Saturday is one of the best opportunities the Christian calendar allows for that.

Don't rush through today; sit with the mystery of 2000 years ago as well as the mystery within yourself today.