“Meeting Ourselves: Alive and Free” A Sermon by Alan Sherouse

"Standing at his friend’s tomb, Jesus can already imagine another. He's on his way there, in fact – a final visit to the city, a last supper, a looming cross, a stone. When his followers are amidst the tombs of Jerusalem, he wants them to remember Bethany. When they can only see death and are tempted to hole up in fear and finality, he wants them to remember Lazarus, and to think of a time when they thought it was all over and somehow amidst the cold stones of what they'd always known, there was new life."