The Marks He Kept

The resurrection did not look like what anyone expected. And perhaps that is still true. He does not always come when we expect, or in the way we imagine. But he comes.
And when he does, the marks remain.

The Day Between

They went home.

That is what the gospels tell us, almost in passing. After the cross, after the burial, after Joseph of Arimathea rolled the stone into place, the women who had followed from Galilee went home and prepared spices