This is the Easter Sunday morning in my mind. However, the first Easter Sunday morning was not like this. The disciples despaired by the death of Jesus heard the shocking news from the women that someone stole the body. ‘No way’, they thought, started running to the tomb. What they encountered was the empty tomb and did not yet understand what happened. It was the disastrous first Easter Sunday morning!
What about your Easter Sunday morning? As the economy recesses; people lose jobs; daily life seems getting tougher and tougher, our Easter Sunday morning seems not too bright as it should be. Like the disciples despaired by the reality, we suddenly hear the same news about the empty tomb. We run to the tomb like the disciples. As a matter of fact, humans are all running to the tomb in their life, called “Being unto death.” Anyway, what we see is the same that the disciples found: the empty tomb.
Here is the most poignant question before us. The empty tomb is given to all whether we like it or not. What makes difference is to believe or not. Most people go to the tomb through their life and stay there. The tomb is their life, goal and destination because they think of what is on earth. However, some people are different. Although they also go to the tomb but they do not end up there because they seek what is above. They see the same empty tomb, but they believe it even though they don’t understand like the disciples. What makes difference is not the empty tomb but the belief in the resurrection.
How is your Easter morning? It is here anyway. Can you see and believe or not? If you believe, you are called to be a witness who follows heart not proof. When Mary Magdalene meets the risen Christ, Jesus directs her to go to the gathered community of the brothers and sisters: it is there that he is to be found alive. So we find the risen Lord in this worshipping community. And we profess the power of one: the power to die and power to live because Jesus said, “I have power to lay down my life and I have power to take it up again.”
Here is the Easter Sunday morning. Good morning! Let’s have a breakfast with longing and thinking of what is above. Jesus Christ is risen! INDEED!