The following is taken from Christ in Our Home, a Lutheran publication:
What do you do on Saturday? Catch up on work around the house? Make a trip to the grocery store? In our culture Saturday is an in-between day. It's wedged between the work week...
What do you do when your world has fallen apart? Late Friday afternoon, Joseph of Arimathea made sure the body of Jesus received a proper burial. He sealed the tomb with a large stone. I can imagine that once Joseph's work was done, he -- like the other disciples -- started wondering what to do next. The Saturday between the first Good Friday and Easter was an in-between day. It was a day of unspeakable sadness. The hopes of the disciples had died with Jesus. There was little for them to do but wait. They could not fix the situation. Only God could.
We live out our days on Saturday. It's a day of waiting for God to come and do what only God can do. Philip Yancey tells a story of a grandmother who lies buried under 150-year-old oak trees in a cemetery in Louisiana. In accordance with the Grandmother's wishes, only one word is carved on the tombstone: "Waiting."
(From Augsburg Press, p. 7, April, May, June 2010 issue)
