"Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene"

  "Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. She saw two white-robed angels, one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. "Dear woman, why are you crying?" the angels asked her. 

 "Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't where they have put him." 

 She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him. "Dear woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?" 

 She thought he was the gardener. "Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."

 "Mary!" Jesus said. 

 She turned to him and cried out, "Rabboni!" (which is Hebrew for "Teacher"). 

 "Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "

 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, "I have seen the Lord!" Then she gave them his message." (John 20:11-18 NLT) 

  As I said, (the week is not quite over,) Mary would be the topic for Christmas! Forgive me if I don't say that much today, this part of the story has me a little choked up. It's like opening a present, knowing what it might be, but, at the same time, expecting a surprise when you finally get it opened! 

 The most important thing that I would share today: "If you seek Him, He will show up!" It will most assuredly happen...

"And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." (Luke 11:5-10 KJV)