25 April 2019, Easter Thursday
WHY ARE YOU SO SURPRISED? (Acts 3:11-26)
Jesus pushes the disciples: ‘You foolish men! So slow to believe
the message of the prophets!’ And again,
‘Why are you so agitated? Why these doubts?’
And now we have Peter saying, ‘Why so surprised?’ One might reply, ‘I have every righ to be
surprised. These are amazing events. Unprecedented’. Yet these words of Jesus and Peter are what it
is all about. Why be surprised when what
was foretold actually happens? It makes us think our expectations are too
low. Our hearts are too closed. Our horizon too near. Easter is all about opening up our hearts and
minds and accepting that wonder and amazement are the essence of life. We are not supposed to live in our cramped
little world but in the expanse of our imagination.
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