Seeking | Who are you looking for?

Easter begins in the dark. 

Before the lilies, before the alleluias, before the sun rises—Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb. The one she followed has died publicly and brutally on a Roman cross. 

The stone is rolled away. She runs to tell the others: “They have taken the Lord… and we do not know where they have laid him.” She is not looking for resurrection—only trying to make sense of loss. 

She returns, weeping outside the tomb. 

If she is seeking anything, it is closure. A body to anoint.