We
confess, O God, that we don’t wait very well. When good news is promised at the
end of a long hard road, we’d prefer to take a pill or go under the knife,
instead of slogging it out on an arduous journey; but you took Peter, James, and
John to the mountaintop for a reason – not just to reveal your glory one more
spectacular time – but also to give them a glimpse of resurrection, so that
they might have the strength and courage to go down to Jerusalem, out to the
place of the skull, and through the grave’s three day silence.
Give
us that same fortitude, O Lord, so that we might make the journey through the
pit of our own suffering once more, and find ourselves, come Easter morning,
running back from the empty tomb to spread the crazy news of resurrection all
over town; through Jesus Christ, our Passion-Guide. Amen.
©
2013 Todd Jenkins
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