Even now

Laura Digan April 04, 2026 0 0

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John 19: 38-42 (NIV-UK)

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. 39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about thirty-five kilograms. 40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was near by, they laid Jesus there.

“I had followed him quietly, from the shadows, afraid of what it might cost me. 

But when I saw him there, broken, lifeless upon the cross I was no longer afraid. My love for him would not let me stay hidden any longer.

So I stepped forward. I asked for his body. I no longer cared about the cost.

With Nicodemus beside me, our hearts broken, we carried him with trembling hands. We lovingly wrapped him as best we could, holding on to the small mercy of doing something, anything, for him.

It felt like the end. Like all our hopes had been sealed behind that cold, heavy stone.

And yet… even then, something stirred. The slight sense that he was not finished. That even here, in death, in the desolation he was making a way. Through the sorrow, through the silence, through the wilderness of our grief.

I do not understand it. But I will keep following.

Because if he is making a way, then even now, there is somewhere still for us to go.”

Prayer:

Lord, in the silence of loss, give me courage to keep following the way you are still making.

Amen