silent saturday
Waiting is hard.
Waiting in silence is even harder.
I can’t stop thinking about this day… This Silent Saturday wedged between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. This day we know very little about.
What did the disciples do? Were they crying? Praying? Angry? Hopeful? Worshipful? I don’t know what they were doing, but I know what they were hearing.
Nothing.
All they could do was wait.
For what? They didn’t even know. For how long? They had no clue.
I’m sure the night-hours seemed darker. I’d imagine the questions kept coming and the fear grew crippling. I’m sure it felt like they were holding their breath, hoping against hope that Jesus was still who He said He was and that the last few years hadn’t been a complete waste.
But their waiting was met only with deafening silence…
Just like yours and mine sometimes is.
So on this Silent Saturday, I’m reminding us of what we know to be true:
Keep waiting.
Redemption is coming.
Amen & amen!!!
Wow, that’s really gorgeous.
Sunday’s a commin!
Yes, it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRiIpsbJW8o
@traceepersiko says:
I wonder what I would’ve done….. trying to think of how I wait now and what i do. I would be so so sad. Just trying to imagine if I lost you, my best friend. It would crush me. Losing my messiah would….. can’t image such grief. I hope I would cling to his words given about that day as I replayed it over and over in my head. So freaking hard!
So glad Sunday brings the exhale.
Wow. Just ..wow. Again, you have touched my heart in a way that was needed today. Thank you. xoxo
Alece,
Beautifully said.
Wow. I guess I never took time to think about the Saturday inbetween the two days that would change the hearts of mankind. I’ve been having a Silent Saturday for about two weeks now. Praise God…Redemption is on its way!! :) Thanks for sharing.
I try to imagine the same, but have the light of truth so bright within that I cannot fully feel the darkness…
that waiting, what they thought was the end, we know was only the “in-between”
beautiful post, Alece
YES. Thank you for this this morning…
May you have a beautiful Easter, Friend.
oh lece. . .that waiting in silence is the most difficult thing in the world. i have really been pondering how the disciples must have felt. . .hope shattered. much like mine feels at the moment. but sunday is coming. . .it came for Him and i have to believe it will come for us as well. . .beautifully written. . .
@CandySteele says:
Beautiful, Alece. I just read a line over at Justin Davis’ blog that really resounded with me and fits for all of us: “As long as you have breath, God has a plan.”
Breathing with you today.
@gritandglory says:
wow, candy. that was beautiful. thank you for “breathing” with me today. love that!
headed over there to read the whole post now…
Thinking along these lines made the Good Friday service I attended last night so powerful.
It prompted this: http://emuf.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-i-was-there-that-day.html
LOVE this…
Good stuff. Life is hard not being able to see the big picture. But praise God redemption IS coming!
@onestitchrachel says:
I think my favorite day of Easter weekend is the Saturday. Because while we wait, God works. And while we know the end of the story from Jesus’s time, we don’t know the end of our own story. But we can look at Easter and know that God is working, just like He did so long ago.
@gritandglory says:
“because while we wait, God works” — dang. that is so powerful. thank you, Rachel.
I never stopped to think about silient Saturday, and what Jesus had to endure. The long wait. But, God was there. Then Jesus paid it all for us.
Amen!!!!!!
that waiting, what they thought was the end, we know was only the “in-between”
—-i LOVE this. today, our right now, will someday be our “in between”. what are we doing with it? what can i do today to prepare for / pave the way for the resurrection “tomorrow”?
my desire for this dark, waiting time of mine is to spend it believing HIM.
The waiting is over !! Hallelujah!
Happy Resurrection Day!
@Jbuttwhatwhat says:
Are we on the same bated-breath page or WHAT.
(We are.)
@thomasmarkz says:
Beautiful. May we all persist through the Silent Saturdays of life.
@crittyjoy says:
Between the post and the comments oh how my heart has been ministered too today.
I often ponder how Mary, Mary Magdalene, and the disciples handled this day… the hopefulness that it wasn’t over or the hopelessness that it was? Confusion and frustration and hurt… so many things going on in their hearts on that Saturday. And truthfully it brings me closer to them and to Him because I understand those emotions and that wavering between hopefulness and hopelessness.
I thought about this all day today…trying to be silent (haha that didn’t work), wondering how they must have felt…i think i would have stayed out of sight, and had a mega melt down… everything they staked their lives on seemed to vanish, and the loss of a close friend too…ahh good post…its been on my heart too
Everything they had staked their lives on …and the loss of a close friend….
Damn. Yes. And damn.
And again. Wow.