For some this will be the first time the family gathers to share Easter without someone you loved. Young or old, it makes no dif-ference. The sheer weight of living life in our sinful world with its struggles and pain, hurt and disappoint-ments and defeats, all that tempts us to withdraw. We want to crawl away from pain, to slide into our own spiritual grave, to get lost and stay that way. Just let me weep in the shadows.
Nothing s new.
If it s all depressing, at least it s familiar. That s why we need more than the evidence of a missing body. We need to come again and again, looking with the eyes of faith, as Peter and John and the other eye witnesses who saw the Word made flesh, risen as He said. The witness of the Word is made clear by our Lord Himself. Years ago a London Bobby was patrolling the northern section of the city late at night when he heard weeping.