Saturday of Holy Week

Remember these words we read at Christmas?

Luke 2: 34-35

34Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: "This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, 35so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too."

"And a sword will pierce your own soul too."

Do you think Mary is remembering these words this morning?

Do you think she knows exactly what Simeon meant now?

Do you think she feels like she too has been beaten and a big part of her died last night as she watched her Son take his last breath?

Did she pray this morning before she got out of bed..."Please God let that all have been just a terrible dream...Let my Son still be here with me."

What pain and sorrow she must have felt as she gets up and realizes it was no dream.

Tomorrow, Everyone will celebrate his rising from the dead...But today..

Jesus lies in a tomb.

No one will mourn him more today than the woman that gave birth to him.

The woman that picked him up when he would stumble and fall as a child.

The woman that laughed when he said something funny and the woman that would give him those "momma looks" when boys will be boys...

For last night..."A sword pierced her soul."

In the name of Mary's baby boy...

Amen....