Mary’s Encounter with the Risen Jesus Leads Her from Grief to Belief

The post opens with a story about a six-year-old boy named Christian, who was dying of cancer in northeast Oklahoma. A friend trapped a butterfly for him, and Christian asked his mother to release it, saying he would be like that butterfly when he flew away to Jesus. After Christian died, his parents returned to their country home to find the lawn covered with yellow butterflies, and a single butterfly later landed on his mother’s face. The author describes this as a moment that strengthened the family’s faith.

From there, the author turns to the resurrection account in John 20:11-18. He describes Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, weeping and confused, and notes that she stops and looks into the tomb rather than turning away. He reads the two angels at the head and foot of where Jesus had lain as a picture echoing the ark of the covenant, and he suggests the question “Why are you crying?” is meant to bring hope. He argues that belief often comes slowly, through an encounter with God that God himself makes possible, and he shares that his own generation has been shaped by a culture skeptical of religion.

The heart of the post is Jesus calling Mary by name, which opens her eyes. The author emphasizes Jesus’s words that he is ascending to “my Father and your Father,” and he sees in them a new family formed through the resurrection. He invites readers to ask whether they truly believe they are family with God. He also shares his testimony of coming to faith in 2012 after years of addiction.

The author closes by urging readers to let Jesus awaken them to the truth, to walk with him daily, and to share the good news with others. He addresses the difficulty of believing something that seems too good to be true, concluding that the resurrection is “too good not to be true.” He ends with a call to faith like Christian’s.

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