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Meditation: Is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder that those women were afraid?
Surely we would have been, too?
They had only gone to the tomb to take their special spices and oils for the ritual anointing of the body of their special friend – a task that was very common in those days when death could strike at any time and any age.
But what they found was so shocking.
The stone they had worried so much about moving had gone. And there was no dead body to anoint. But there was a stranger sitting in the tomb – a young man in white – and he told them an extraordinary tale that Jesus was alive and they should go back and tell that to the others, particularly the men.
Continues...
©Marjorie Dobson
Is it any wonder that those women were afraid?
Surely we would have been, too?
They had only gone to the tomb to take their special spices and oils for the ritual anointing of the body of their special friend – a task that was very common in those days when death could strike at any time and any age.
But what they found was so shocking.
The stone they had worried so much about moving had gone. And there was no dead body to anoint. But there was a stranger sitting in the tomb – a young man in white – and he told them an extraordinary tale that Jesus was alive and they should go back and tell that to the others, particularly the men.
Continues...
©Marjorie Dobson
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