“The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid.  Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.  On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.”  Luke 23: 55-56)

This Holy Saturday is a day of waiting and a day of preparation.  We have to wait, which is something we don’t do very well, especially in our world of instant gratification, instant food, instant run-off elections, and 3G networks.

But it is in the waiting that things happen.  The yeast has to do it’s work for the bread to rise.  The plants have to work to break through the earth before they can grow and bloom.  Babies, whether chicks, bunnies, or humans, require waiting by their parents and family before they are born. 

We have to wait as well for the resurrection.  We have to wait for new life.  We have to wait for God’s timing of things.  Waiting puts us in our place, for there is nothing we can do to hurry the process along, for resurrection isn’t something we do, it is what God has done, is doing, and will do for all who believe.  And so we wait, expectantly, eagerly for the dawn of the third day, the first day, the end of the beginning – Easter!