The Gospel of John 20:11-18
Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
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I think this is the way it usually happens, when we see God. We’re not quite sure what’s going on, but then we suddenly realize that God is looking out at us, through someone else’s eyes, speaking to us through someone’s voice. At first we don’t pay that much attention to someone because we think he is merely the gardener, but then we realize that person has become our teacher.
The Easter story might cause us to ask, “Can a man really be resurrected from the dead?” But that might not be quite the right question. Can we see God as we look around us? Can we ourselves be resurrected from the dead? Is new life possible for us? Can we bury the parts of ourselves that have been holding us back from God’s love, and arise?
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