EastB24.  Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43.  Peter is speaking to Cornelius the Roman centurion and other non-Jews.  He relates how the man, Jesus of Nazareth, was especially anointed by God, worked many miracles, was put to death and was resurrected from the dead by God.  Then Peter said, “Everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

John 20:1-9.  Mary of Magdala must have been grieving very much over the crucified Jesus when she went to the tomb well before dawn.  It seems that the sight of tomb stone having been rolled back startled her, so much that she assumed that Jesus’ body had been taken from the tomb without actually looking into the tomb.  The story of the apostle “whom Jesus loved,” waiting for Peter to arrive before entering the tomb, is quite touching.  The fact that the burial cloths were still remaining indicates that, not only had the body not been stolen, but that the Jesus, on arising, had taken the time to roll up “the cloth that had covered his head” and put it “in a separate place.”  The other disciple “who had arrived at the tomb first” “saw and believed” apparently, that Jesus was not there, but “did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.”

Colossians 3:1-4.  “Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”  In John 3:6-7, Jesus said, “What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.  Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above.’” While still living on this earth in an earthly body, Jesus calls upon us to live spiritually with Jesus breathing the Holy Spirit into us as the source of our life.  There is no book to read that has steps to follow.  Christ who is the Way will lead us daily through each day.  What else could we expect if the source of life is spiritual and not physical or material?