i ask; will you answer, jesus?

Today you are among the dead, Jesus. Yet, I still have questions to ask. Will you answer? Will I hear? So much has been discussed over the last weeks—questions of God’s kingdom, questions of your Messiahship, questions of God’s purposes. Questions also have centered on who we are, what it means to follow you, when you will return. Sometimes you answered clearly, other times obliquely; some queries you refused to answer. The stories told haven’t always agreed or presented a consistent picture of who you are, but all eventually name you as God’s anointed, the one we are to follow.

So as you sleep with the dead today Jesus, will you answer? These are our questions:

What will you ask Jesus today?


The broken, the cast-away, and the beautiful, how do I put them together in the kingdom?

Sinful humanity and the fervent desire for goodness, both are a part of me; how do I deal with that and why am I that way?

Why, Jesus, do you trust us to follow? Why do you expect us to trust you?

Why in God’s name is so much pain necessary?

And what sorts of questions will Jesus answer?

Questions of humanity and not deity it seems to me.

Questions asked honestly and purposely.

Questions of the sort that the responses can be used for living faithfully, but not questions of the sort that simply give power, he answers, it seems, perhaps.

So I will always be in doubt about some things. But I can ask. Jesus will answer. I can trust the answering will be what is good, what is true, and what is at one with all creation and God.

Jesus, let your light shine from the depths to the heights, through all of creation, including me. Amen.
Blessings, Caroline