Now What?

What2Say2Day? I'm finding as the week after Easter goes on the emotions which built towards the Day of Resurrection are beginning to calm. It's almost as though everything in the world is breathing as one. I am sensing a refocus not only on my goals, but on the goals of those around me.

The emails have all but stopped, the social-media posts have dwindled down to almost none, and I'm drinking less coffee during the day. My thoughts this morning send me to the week following Jesus' resurrection and how the disciples dealt with their emotions. John's story of the events following Easter don't give us much information and so we're left to figure out things for ourselves. John 20:19-31 has us believing that for an entire week they stayed in a house with locked doors. 

Which begs the question, what would you be doing?

The one person you gave up everything in your life for has just been put to death, and his tomb is found empty. The leaders of your community and the government are looking for anyone even remotely associated with him and they're out for blood. You have no job, no family, very few friends, and you don't know who you can trust. The life you've become accustomed to is gone, taken away in what seems as quick as a flash of lightning.

Now what?

That's the question, isn't it. Where do we, as individuals and as a community, go from here? Maybe this week, and the weeks to follow are meant for us to figure that out. The distractions will soon grow again and our lives will be just as busy as they were in the days leading to Easter. Whatever it is we're going to do we better get it started soon.

Take this week and the time that follows to discern what it is God is asking from you. It's okay that you lock yourself in a room to figure it out as long as you see it when it comes. It's what the disciples did.