Waiting for.......

We know that we are waiting for Easter. The cross we have venerated today is empty and He will rise. We can't unknow that. Yet the Aposles didn't know, they didn't even know what they hoped. Easter was a revelation to them, so this time of waiting was truly bewildering. They still believed in Him but there was now no certain way forward. He was dead but he had promised that was not the end. Now it had happened, how could that promise be fulfilled? Saturday is still a day of waiting but we can look forward with confidence. They were looking backward without understanding what it all meant. Only the Resurrection makes sense of it all, as they came to see when the waiting was over. Jesus, the good man, makes no sense at all. Jesus, risen from the dead, makes sense of everything.