Resurrection

Resurrection

Oil on Maple

Teresa West Carter

2015

But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

John 21:4 NASB

The Silence Between

Station XIV

Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb

Oil, charcoal, and gold leaf on corrugated paper

     Holy Saturday... the silence between the crucifixion and the Resurrection. In silent aloneness we reflect things heard, things seen. It is the place of memorial scars, surface numbness with life beneath: marks born of pain. In the silence we feel the scars and we remember the pain.

The silence between the notes allows music to be known.

The silence between the crucifixion and the Resurrection was fixed between two notes of the Greatest Song given to men, a space of time when the orchestra of creation awaited the Conductor's hand.

Today is the silence between.

Tomorrow is Resurrection Day.

Resurrection Day

But Jesus said,

"Why are you so frightened?

Why do you Doubt?

Look at my hands and my feet

and see who I am."

Luke 24:38,39

The hands and feet of Jesus reveal everything we need-

proof that the debt of our sin has been paid.

We have nothing to fear.

"We are the people of the Resurrection.

Let's be that."

Todd Komarnicki

Good Friday

Angel of the Lord

Lilli Turner, age 5

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
William Cowper, 1772

It is raining. If there is one day in the entire year that rain is appropriate it is the Friday before Easter, the only day humans have named 'good'. I am sitting outside. The sky is Payne's grey. Old-timers would say, "The sky's gone smooth cloudy." I have been reflecting on all I have to be grateful for, a long list. Today, I am especially grateful for the Cross. Today I meditate on friendship and loyalty. John was the only disciple of Jesus at the Cross that day. My perspective of the Cross is post-resurrection. What must have been going through John's mind? Forced to watch his closest friend die, abandoned, alone. I am overwhelmed with knowing I take the Cross for granted, I take the goodness of the Cross for granted. 'His kindness leads to repentance.' His kindness puts me on my face, and, like Peter, cry 'Depart from me, for I am a sinful man!' And so, He left us. But on the third day He came back!