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“Why do you seek the living among the dead?” How many times have we done that? Gone in search of something to try to regain what we had? Gone back to something or someone in the hope of finding that what we had isn’t lost, only to realise that it’s empty. Some people never leave the tomb and spend much of their lives in mourning, keeping their minds fixed on the past. It requires a leap in faith to turn away from the empty tomb and see what awaits us. The Easter story brings us that message very strongly. Jesus’ friends went to the tomb to seek him out, and found the tomb to be empty. They went away, weeping and afraid. The gospels say “they did not yet understand” what had happened. Huddled together in fear and sorrow, they mourned their loss. Don’t we do the same? When we have broken with the past, we need some time to mourn the loss. There is a time when we relive what we had, go back to what was, all to make sense of this devastation. Later that same day, Jesus appeare