Today we reach the climax, my favorite part, of Mary of Bethany's story. She has learned the hard-but-wonderful way that she can trust the Jesus who writes death and resurrection stories enough to pour out her own life at His feet and even to anoint Him for His own death, burial, and resurrection. We learn with her to both "expect death" and "expect resurrection" as we follow Jesus, and to worship Him with her by trusting the way He will write his story in our lives.

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Today we revisit Mary of Bethany during an uncomfortable kind of encounter with Jesus, the kind where He asks to reopen a dark smelly tomb. And we find out with her that letting the light shine into even those places is not scary when Resurrection Himself is holding your hand.

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The story of what happens to Mary's brother Lazarus is a "microcosm" of the whole problem of evil. Why does a loving and powerful Jesus let bad things happen to good people, and when they encounter Him in the middle of their pain, how does He respond to them and what happens next? We'll encounter in Jesus a God who first cries with us and then changes everything.

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