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04/15/2002 Entry: "Resurrection stories"
In the Sunday School class (we call it "Explorers", but if I'd said that, you wouldn't have known what I was talking about) a girl complained, "We've heard that one before." It was the story of the encounter between the risen Jesus and his disciple Thomas, the man we unfairly call "Doubting Thomas". And she was right. We do keep telling these stories, year after year. Mary & the Gardener, stones rolled away, upper rooms, lakeside breakfasts ... there's no end to our retelling of them.But it's more than vain repetition. We tell these stories because they speak to us deep truths. They speak not of a long-dead hero, but of living encounters between a master and his disciples. They are not about events of the first century - they shed light on the mysteries of life in the twentyfirst. We tell these stories, not as fondly remembered fairy tales, but as powerful visions of the presence of the Living God. We tell them and retell them because they touch our experience and enliven our despair with hope. And at each telling the ask the age-old question, "Why are you looking among the dead for one who is alive?"Tell them.
