What would you say if someone came up to you a few days after a funeral and told you that they'd seen the deceased at the grocery store? Would you laugh in their face? Silently make a note to call friends and family later? Be so upset that you'd cry?
There's all sorts of possibilities, but I doubt you'd immediately jump to belief that the person had risen from the dead. These things don't happen. It's easy to assume in our modern day that people were simpler and more gullible 2,000 years ago. But they understood life and death -- what do you think they had all those purity codes for? They didn't have the same level of scientific knowledge, but they were just as skeptical as we are of the idea of someone rising from the dead.
But Mary saw enough to convince her to go and tell the story. She understood and believed, and then was the first witness to the resurrection to invite others to explore this possibility that opens a window into a new reality.
May we pray for the wisdom to have open minds and open hearts. Open minds to listen to what God has to say to us and is calling us into, and open hearts to love those that God puts in our path.
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