A reflection for Easter Day
Craufurd Murray
| 30 Mar 2010
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From “Through Grit to Glory” (A Daily Companion for Lent, Holy Week and Easter by Craufurd Murray. Published February 2010).
“It is accomplished.” (John 19:30)
Jesus, we hear from the gospel accounts that you uttered a loud cry just before you died.
John tells us what it was: “It is accomplished” – a grateful shout of fulfilment at the completion of your unique mission (even though we now know your ministry, in another way, was just about to begin among us).
When you were stripped of your clothes - an action designed to humiliate you and demean you and broadcast that you were a non-person – no one could have foreseen how you would move among us in many different garbs, and be exposed to the world for all time.
May our hearts and minds be ready to encounter you.
Give us the understanding to see your presence among us. Help us not to fall into the mistake of Mary Magdalene by looking for you where you are not to be found, missing you when you are right in front of our eyes. You called to Mary, and she recognised your voice.
How often do you call us tenderly by name …
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