For the third Sunday of Easter, Rev. Cari preaches on Luke 24:36b-48, the story following that of last Sunday. It is still Easter evening, and the Risen Christ appears to his followers, who still are not expecting to see him, and so don’t recognize him.

“Peace be with you,” is his greeting, a greeting that is still relevant today. And their response is… silence… fear… (they think they’ve seen a ghost).

Later he shows them his wounds, then opens their minds to the meaning of the Scriptures, all of which introduce them to the life-changing “Way” that will carry them (and us) into God’s future.

Easter is the season for a planting of a new and holy imagination in the followers of the Risen One. We daily ask for the grace to doubt our doubts, as his earliest followers did.