The one who got it!

 John 20:24-25

But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”

Thomas - forever dubbed as the doubter

Yet I believe…

That you were the one who truly got it

You were the one whom, realising the enormity

of all that resurrection meant,

took off and took time

to process

For something as momentous as that

needs time

You weren’t prepared to take anyone else’s word

You weren’t prepared to learn second hand

You demanded your own experience

And even then, you knew that this was so much bigger

so much weightier

than anything you - or the world

had ever known

It wasn’t at all that you didn’t believe

It was that you believed so completely

You saw that the world was forever changed

and you were doing what you needed to do

to be part of a new calling

a new chapter

in being a disciple.

Thomas - you got it.

And, today, we might take our cue from you.

(Liz Crumlish Easter 2023)