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by Cecelia Lester
Peter, John, and Mary Magdalene
Peter and John–Their Experience
John and I saw Mary Magdalene as she ran toward us. I wondered why she hurried so.
“They have moved the Master’s body and I don’t know what they did with him.”
John and I took off running toward the tomb. John outran me and arrived there first. Later, he told me, he hesitated at the door. He didn’t want to enter such a personal place.
I came to the tomb a moment later. I had to see for myself. I brushed past John and entered the tomb. Mary was right. I saw the linen strips lying there. The burial cloth for His head was folded neatly and lying separate from the other pieces. Then John came in. He looked around, as he looked around the tomb, his expression changed. He told me as we headed back to the city that, when he saw the cloths, he believed what Jesus had told us was true.
Mary Magdalene–Her Encounter
I returned to the tomb. I couldn’t keep from crying. I wanted to know what the soldiers, or whoever took my Master’s body, did with it.
After Peter and John departed, I sat at the entrance and sobbed all the harder. Then, I heard a voice ask me why I was crying and who I was looking for.
I thought it was the gardener. I inquired about the Master’s body—where had they taken it? Then, I heard my name. I looked up and saw Jesus. No one knows the relief I felt. All I could do was call out his name, the name I thought of his as. “Rabboni!”
He talked to me. He asked me to deliver a message to the disciples. I departed to find the disciples to share the wondrous news, Ï have seen the Lord!”
Mary went from somber sadness to ecstatic joy. Can we identify with her as we enter into the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection?
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Cecelia Lester has been serious about her writing for over two decades..
She composes Christian essays and posts them to her blog quietspirit-followingmyking.blogspot.com/
She has served in a faith-based organization, Grace In Action by writing two newsletters and searching for possible grants.
In July 2017, she published her first book, 'Times of Trouble Bring Rays of Joy.'
She and her husband of 54 years live in central Indiana. They have one grown son.
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