The tomb is sealed. The waiting begins.
These hours are necessary. But necessary and easy are two very different things. Yet another time in our lives requiring patience. A virtue in thinning supply.
So often in life we plant seeds...of ideas, efforts, and good intentions. With the dirt barely covering, we begin searching for an immediate and predictable harvest.
So like the disciples are we. They followed a teacher and friend, but did not anticipate a Cross, a Death, and a burial.
Teach us Lord, as you did them, the lesson of the tomb. Help us to see that while we tend our seeds, we cannot control when or how the fruit of our efforts will grow. Show us again that patiently and lovingly tending the garden will make it, and us, ready for the Resurrection.
adapted from The Stations of the Cross, Station 14, by Denise Hemrich-Skomer and Fr. Joachim Tyrtania
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