Emphasis Preaching Journal
The dawn is a time...
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The dawn is a time of day when light and lingering shadows mingle. Mark's brief account of the resurrection is a strange mixture of light and shadows. He gives us no string of dramatic appearances or events. It seems he stressed the absence of Jesus rather than his presence. How true to life. The whispers from the graveyard came to us amid the shadows. The call to mission is greeted with fear and silence. We are daunted by the shadows. How much safer it is to adorn the tomb than to venture into some strange Galilee for Galilee is wherever Jesus is and we know where that is.