Alice got the news in...
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Alice got the news in mid-morning when she went to her post office box for the mail. She had been accepted into medical school! It was such great news that she could hardly keep it to herself.
But there was nobody around whom she knew, none of the people who had waited anxiously with her for the good news. Out of all the people she saw through the rest of the morning, not one was a friend with whom she could share this great joy that welled up within her even though her broad smile and shining eyes must have told everyone that something good had happened to her!
It was noon before she got to the dormitory. She exploded into her room, bursting with the message. Her roommate could hardly make heads or tails out of what she was saying at first, for it all tumbled out this way and that. How great it was to finally tell someone what had remained "hidden" within her the whole last half of the morning.
The news spread fast and soon she was surrounded by those who knew her well. They went to lunch and had a party, rejoicing with her.
Must it not have been something like that for the women who went to the tomb? In the midst of their fright came the reassuring words that they were not to seek the living among the dead. Jesus was alive again! "Remember how he told you ... And they remembered his word ..."
But we are not told of how their hearts must have leapt for joy between the tomb and when they could tell the disciples "and all the rest." Of course, why should the writers have to tell us about that? Can we not "fill in" that part of the story? Does that message fill our hearts with joy in the same way?
But there was nobody around whom she knew, none of the people who had waited anxiously with her for the good news. Out of all the people she saw through the rest of the morning, not one was a friend with whom she could share this great joy that welled up within her even though her broad smile and shining eyes must have told everyone that something good had happened to her!
It was noon before she got to the dormitory. She exploded into her room, bursting with the message. Her roommate could hardly make heads or tails out of what she was saying at first, for it all tumbled out this way and that. How great it was to finally tell someone what had remained "hidden" within her the whole last half of the morning.
The news spread fast and soon she was surrounded by those who knew her well. They went to lunch and had a party, rejoicing with her.
Must it not have been something like that for the women who went to the tomb? In the midst of their fright came the reassuring words that they were not to seek the living among the dead. Jesus was alive again! "Remember how he told you ... And they remembered his word ..."
But we are not told of how their hearts must have leapt for joy between the tomb and when they could tell the disciples "and all the rest." Of course, why should the writers have to tell us about that? Can we not "fill in" that part of the story? Does that message fill our hearts with joy in the same way?
