Since we first got the news of Rachel's accident, my mind has been hurtling, trying to grasp some meaning...and always it came back to the reminder that Easter was just around the corner and the thought continued to confuse me. What could Easter being near possibly have anything to do with Rachel's accident?
Tuesday as I sat down to some early morning quiet time , I pulled out the book The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey that I have been reading through for awhile. I was struggling to control my completely uncontrollable fluctuating emotions when I read about a conversation Yancey had with a woman in the airport. She asked him, "Philip, do you ever just let God love you?...It's pretty important, I think." I sat in silence simply letting God's love pour over me and it was healing.
This morning there was a vast need for a reminder of hope in my mind and heart. Words come easily to spout off to others, but is it so easy to truly believe them when my heart is so full of pain? Not so much. But then Yancey finished his book talking about Good Friday and Easter and how we are living on Saturday, the "inbetween" time.
"The very things that make us feel inadequate, the very things that plunder hope, these are what God uses to accomplish his work. For proof, look at the cross."
"The German theologian Jurgan Moltmann expresses in a single sentence the great span from Good Friday to Easter. It is, in fact, a summary of human history, past, present, and future: 'God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him."
Easter IS coming!!
