. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead shakes us from our delusions and forces us out into the reality of a broken world full of virus, death, fear, loneliness; into a world where people like John Harris are struggling to find support and meaning; into a world desperate to know, ‘He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.’
As we celebrate Good Friday, we are being reminded that this last year is not the year when we should have cried out ‘My God, my God why have you forsaken me?’ For when we look at the cross, we see a saviour who stayed the course, who has been with us through the very worst of this pandemic, who has felt every nail hammered into our souls and hearts, who has hung with us, to the very end. We see a saviour who despite the calls to prove who he is by saving himself and abandoning us, chose to stay, to experience what we experience – to hang beside us right to the very end.
As we celebrate Palm Sunday we reflect on all we took for granted before the Pandemic, socially and spiritually. Then we ask if we need to take up a new invitation to meet with Jesus.