Savannah Guthrie

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I have long believed that we miss out on fully celebrating resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death.

It is the darkness that makes this morning's light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful.

It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed.

So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine.

I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth pass away because they are one on earth as it is in heaven.

When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate.

And I celebrate too.

I still believe.

And so I say with conviction, happy Easter.

The two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.

We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death.

But, standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away, when life itself seems far harder than death.

Recently though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered,

I have questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel, this grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld.

She can't wander off.