Well, the MiniVigil’s over…still no news. So, we’re hovering. About the only way I can describe life right now is as a helium balloon tied to a kids finger at the zoo. You don’t know where you’re going, or how long it’s going to take to get there. And all the while you’re at the same time slowly deflating and dangerously close to floating off into the upper Troposphere (where you will finish deflating and land in a place yet to be determined).
I wonder if this is how the disciples felt after Jesus arrest. With the exception of Judas and Peter, we don’t read much about the disciples’ activities that Thursday night, or really anything before his appearance.
I wonder if they still didn’t get it. I wouldn’t be surprised. I wonder if they were sitting around thinking, “What now?” They’d left their homes, their jobs, and their families to follow a dusty but powerful teacher who told them of the great things they would see and eventually do; the great hope that he was bringing…then within a day he was arrested, tried, and nailed to a cross. Where was his hope now?
I don’t think they would have been unreasonable to feel that way. I’m fighting that
right now. It’s a long night, but “joy comes in the morning.”
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