Blinded

Our God and Father.

11 But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. 13 And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”[a] which means Teacher. 17 Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,[b] for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.-John20:11-18

Jesus accomplished His mission for we are now God's children. God is now our Father through our holy adoption when we are baptized. It is comforting to know that God is not distant to us. (I fully disagree with the song 'From a Distance,' where it said, 'God is watching us from a distance) Unfortunately, just like Mary, we cannot recognize the presence of God in our midst all the time or perhaps we chose to be blind to His presence, or we cannot see Him because His will is not what we want. God is never distant because He is faithful to His promise of never abandoning us. Jesus is inviting us all to live as true children of God - a child of His that loves.

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