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

Where the Cross Was Planted

The death of Jesus Christ was not a tragedy that God permitted. It was an act that God initiated. The Creator, entering his own creation. The Judge, taking the place of the condemned. The one without sin, becoming sin. Not as a last resort. As a plan.