Still Rising

For the full context of this post, read LUKE 24:1-12 (NRSV)

It was early. I imagine the only people on the street were Roman guards making their rounds. A cloud of grief and heaviness loomed over the city. They killed Jesus just before the sabbath, so everything—grief, burial, closure—had to wait. But that’s the thing about grief.

It doesn’t wait.

It sits …