The Resurrection According to Tom
My husbands latest in Boundless…
Author’s Note
C. S. Lewis once wrote “Reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
If you’re like me, sometimes it’s hard to wrap your mind around the resurrection at Easter. We’ve heard the story so many times that it’s impossible to experience what the disciples did. After all, they got to watch it happen!
But if Lewis is right, we can recapture some of the resurrection’s meaning through imagination. This article is an imaginative retelling of the first Easter, as though it took place in March 2008. My prayer is that it will help people recapture some of the joy of Jesus rising from the dead.
Of course, my retelling is no substitute for the original — I highly recommend reading the Biblical resurrection account. To reframe Lewis’ expression, John 20 is the truth. In this article, I’ve just added a little imagination.- GH
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The images of death jolted him awake.
Tom had been too cowardly to witness the Master’s execution, but he knew how it happened. Once as a boy he’d snuck out to watch an unknown man suffer and die. He was involuntarily riveted by the whole grisly procedure; morbidly fascinated by the bloody rotting stench and cries of agony. He could see the faces of the weeping mourners; hear the gallows humor from the callous execution squad….
Tom had waited until the sun started down to leave the scene. Then on the walk home, every shadow was the executioner; every sound in the street the cry of a condemned man. He had nightmares for weeks.
But now, 20 years later, huddled in a ragged blanket on a clammy tile floor, Tom was unable to banish the images from his dreams. The childhood nightmares now had a new face for the condemned man. The face of the Master….
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