one of my fav's

^{John 20:11-16
11} Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb ¹² and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
 ¹³ They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
   “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” ¹⁴ At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
 ¹⁵ He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
   Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
 ¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
   She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).


this is one of my fav passages because we have all been here but we have not all ended up where Mary has. We all have lost someone very dear to us as if they have been taken from us or have been gone from us but in this passage Jesus is right there with Mary and says to her "Mary" this gets me a little emotional because here Jesus calls to her and gives her comfort that he has risen. He is ok. Everything is ok just as he promised. The Lord sometimes we feel he has taken from us and sometimes we cry and were lost but we should never forget that Jesus has promised us that we will not die if we believe in him and that we shall not suffer death for the lord overcomes Death...