Sunday, April 20, 2025
Sunday Reflection: When nothing is everything.
A part of the Easter story I love is this: That the wonder was in finding nothing.
In so many heroic stories, the apex is finding something, like a magical ring or hidden treasure or oneself. But in the Easter story, when the women go to Jesus's tomb, what they find is the stone rolled away and inside the tomb is... nothing. And that is the world-changing miracle.
Sometimes, it is like that. We expect something terrible, all signs point to tragedy, we expect a dead body and then... nothing. Hallelujah!
I often think of that moment at the tomb when clemency is granted to someone in prison. Because what will happen is that they... well, they won't be there. The cell will be empty. Hallelujah!
I know that people will not like the idea that I am comparing the story of Christ to people in prison. But (as some of you have heard me say) that all was Jesus's idea-- he was the one who said "when you visit those in prison, you visit me."
So today is a day about finding no one there. Hallelujah!
