Wednesday, 24 April 2019

WHY ARE YOU SO SURPRISED?


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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