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Author: Kate Murray
I’ll do almost anything as long as I think I may get a good story out of it.
And over the past couple of years I’ve discovered the best stories, the ones that are worth retelling to my friends and my family, those that come up again and again, are those that involve a lot of pain, suffering, and struggle. The best stories are often those when I faced great difficulty, particularly if it was still highly humorous, and then come out ahead in the end or things mysteriously worked out.
Which is probably why this time of the year always tends to resonate very deeply within me – Holy Week and Easter. This coming Sunday will mark the beginning of this crazy, wild week as we travel with Jesus down the road as he enters Jerusalem on a donkey while people waved palm branches and hailed him as the King of Israel. On Thursday we’ll eavesdrop as Jesus celebrates Passover with the disciples and gives them a new commandment. Then on Friday we will hear again, and likely experience, Jesus’ betrayal and death as he takes his final breath on the cross. Only to wake up on Sunday faced again with the unbelievable reality of an empty tomb, a reality that turns the world upside down and changes everything we thought we knew.
It’s a phenomenal story! It’s also the story we’re invited into. Every year I anticipate making the journey through the week again, thinking I know how the story ends (on Sunday with an empty tomb), but routinely find it’s not over – I am, we are, still writing the story. Then I begin to wonder, am I writing a story worth telling again and again? Is my story a reflection of that empty tomb?
What kind of story are you writing?
