I have always loved this ending of Mark's Gospel. Here are the women, faithful to Jesus Christ to (and through!) the end, fleeing in fear and astonishment. They have witnessed something remarkable, something earth-shattering, and they do not know what to do next. It says they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid... and yet they clearly told someone. What did they say? What did they do next?
We don't know. We know they told the story, and news of the Gospel began to spread. But we don't have the details.
We are invited to use our imaginations, to wonder at what the women said and did, at how the Holy Spirit was at work. It's a divine mystery, and it is part of our story. We step into the story, putting ourselves in that place. What would we have done? How do we tell the story now? What comes next?
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