New vision

Thursday April 12th, Luke 24: 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. OK, mission is over, Jesus is gone and on with life. It was an act of love and caring, but also an act of bringing to a final chapter the mission of Jesus. The only trouble was that it was not so final. We tend to see and hear only what we expect to see and hear. All those predictions and preparations went right over the disciples heads. They go over our heads also. We expect to see a world in trouble, we expect there to be war and food shortages in parts of the world, we expect to live in peace on this side of the ocean, which is why 911 hit so hard. We expect it and that is what we see and hear and perpetrate. God calls us to a new vision, a new reality. God calls us to open our souls to God’s vision for the world and to start to live it now. We have a ways to go.