Easter Sunday/Resurrection

Read John 20:1-18 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”  Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed—for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. Then they went home.  Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. She saw two white-robed angels, one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. “Dear woman, why are you crying?” the angels asked her.  “Because they have taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”   She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him. “Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?”   She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”   “Mary!” Jesus said.  

Nole me tangere means Don't cling to me
© Cindy Serio 2011

She turned to him and cried out, “Rabboni!” (which is Hebrew for “Teacher”).  “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”  Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.

Discover your daily breath prayer as it has emerged from your careful reading of the text.  As you continue to pray your prayer as you breathe throughout the day, you may find that the fears and the pain and the silence of all of your yesterdays turn to joy as God’s love resurrects within you the person you were created to be.   Have you seen the Lord today?    

• Take time to quiet yourself within.  Acknowledge and then release of all your busy thoughts. 
• Use the name you usually use when you pray … or allow a “new” name for God to emerge 
• Consider where you are being called to release, receive, and/or respond to God this day
• Ponder until you have about 6-8 syllables which is the most comfortable to breathe … or pray this one:                                 

(breath in) Rabboni! … (breath out) I see you …

If music is a pathway to God for you, listen to this piano and photograph arrangement of Open our Eyes by Ana Kwa

Open our eyes, Lord, 

we want to see Jesus, 

to reach out and touch Him, 

 and say that we love Him. 

Open our ears, Lord, 

and help us to listen, 

 open our eyes, Lord, 

we want to see Jesus.