“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands,
and put my finger in the mark of the nails
and my hand in his side,
I will not believe.”
—John 20.25
It was not enough for Thomas to be told.
He needed to experience resurrection embodied.
So it is for those around us now.
For many it’s a story that’s not true.
How then might it be true in our lives?
What might it be about our lives
that seeing them would make people believe
that Christ has indeed been raised?
Maybe to trust love. To care fearlessly.
To risk for the sake of justice and mercy.
To trust God’s presence in suffering and bewilderment.
Nothing heroic, just trusting
in God’s presence and power
in us and around and beneath and among us.
Maybe if some poor Thomas can sense
how the wounds of love have given us life,
how through our failures and powerlessness
mercy and justice are still alive in us,
how they themselves are embraced and forgiven,
in that moment, as if never before,
Christ would be raised from the dead.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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