Out of Sight

Easter headlines in the Denver Post read: “Muslim Bosnians celebrate grand opening of Mosque,” “Mormons select Brazilian, Asian-American apostles,” “Spiritual leader starts 60th year in exile (Dalai Lama),” and “The great tragedy of churches gone condo [demolished to make room for condos].” I searched the entire newspaper, but on this holiest of Christian days, Jesus was nowhere to be seen. After the resurrection the Lord appeared to the disciples over a period of 40 days. On one occasion Jesus was eating with the apostles and then He was taken up before their eyes, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. “They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:10-11 NIV). I now have to laugh at the absurdity of my looking for Jesus in a newspaper.