Thoughts, Recent Work, and Other Nice Things, Part 2

An author I follow on Instagram named Scott Erickson posted some thoughts on Mary Magdalene finding the risen Jesus first. He outlined the darkness she’d experienced at the hands demons and contrasted that hellish time of separation from her innate dignity with the light that Jesus brought into her life. She knew what it meant to stare into the abyss and have it stare back. She was enveloped in darkness to the extent that her identity was stolen from her. She wasn’t herself before Jesus met her. So when He died, one could imagine that it would’ve been especially hard for her. To know such evil and such grace in the same life is a powerful thing. Scott puts forth a theory that Jesus showed Himself to her first because she knew what it meant to see the light in the dark, to find life within a tomb. This line really got me: “Maybe this is why when the men looked into the tomb they only saw dirty laundry, but when Mary looked into the tomb she saw angels, because she was not unfamiliar with being able to see in the dark.”

Scott’s Instagram handle is @scottthepainter. Definitely a good follow. Ok, onto a few fun photos I found while doing some spring cleaning: