Via Crucis: Stations 13 & 14
God is Dead Day One and Two
“Joy comes in the morning” on what we call Easter. But this day, the day before is a time of absence. The Episcopalians have it right when they, on Good Friday, strip the alter of all reminders of Christ and so it remains, barren until Easter morning when He is celebrated as the Living One and the pattern and hope for all future resurrection.
We have a selfish stake in all of this.
But Christ did not mean to be absent all these other days. He alone is the sweet smell and fragrance to God and also to us who know Him and are known by Him.
We do not have to feel such barrenness now. There are no days in which Christ is not alive, even though we may not feel it so inwardly.
The disciples sat in intolerable loss and were clueless. I am not much different even though I have the advantage of knowing what comes tomorrow.
It makes you wonder…why three days?
Maybe it’s the finality of the second day.
These were days when the saying “God is Dead” were true. Somehow Creation continued to live and breath without its Mediator Who holds all things together. I have no idea how that works…but it did. In those days death and meaninglessness seem to exist alone.
I think of these days where Christ is silenced, buried out back and replaced by politics, religion, fear, programs and philosophies for living in a way that will appease a far-away God.
It’s a quiet desperation and a mutually unspoken banal conspiracy to simply look away and pretend that these two days of death really represent the human condition.
Tomorrow proves otherwise.
If your church doesn’t let Him in the room tomorrow, sneak Him in.
