Meet Me in Galilee II
(No Remember Me Monday this week – I threw out my back on Palm Sunday and am struggling with pain and recovery. I’m reposting this from last year because I’m needing this encouragement today – that God has such goodness planned, even after a crucifixion experience, even after a resurrection experience – His plans for goodness don’t stop – they just continue from glory to glory if we press into it, regardless of whether it’s comfortable, whether we understand, and even doubt we can – but we step forward in faith trusting, believing. . . in a Meet Me in Galilee Invitation)
Yesterday, we celebrated Easter: the day the Son of God, after having died for our sins, rose from the dead, restored to His Father – and restoring us to His Father, too.
Then came Monday, Everyday Ordinary Monday.
“We are the Easter People, and Hallelujah is our Song,” said Pope John Paul II.
Does Monday feel like that? Like a Hallelujah Song? Tuesday? Wednesday? Many other days after that? Where did our Hallelujah Song go?
About 2,000 years ago, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna (Joanna, wife of Chuza, a steward in Herod’s household, who had been healed by Jesus), Salome (the wife of Zebedee, mother of James and John, possibly the sister of Mary)–these women set out early Sunday morning to Christ’s tomb. Instead of finding hopelessness and death, they found resurrection hope – and something to carry into the week.
Jesus tells them,
“You’re holding on to me for dear life!
Don’t be frightened like that.
Go tell my brothers that they are to go to Galilee,
and that I’ll meet them there” (Matthew 28:10).
What did they do with that Resurrection Joy? That Resurrection Hope? The Impossible somehow Possible! Did they walk home, walk back into their everyday ordinary Mondays? Doing things the same old same old?
“Meet me in Galilee,” Jesus said – and I cannot get it out of my head.
The Impossible just became Possible – there are things to be done, lost to be found, souls to be saved. . . Meet me in Galilee. . .
Meet me in Galilee
those who came to the tomb were told
Meet me in Galilee
he said – tell all our friends
Meet me in Galilee
Don’t despair – all is not lost –
it’s all been won
Meet me in Galilee
there is so much more
Meet me in Galilee
it’s just beginning
Meet me in Galilee
there are the lost to be found
and souls to be saved
Meet me in Galilee
there are unclean spirits to be cast out
and minds to be freed
Meet me in Galilee
there are the sick and broken
to be healed and mended
Meet me in Galilee
for a Holy Spirit rain
to fall and fill
your souls
Meet me in Galilee
before you go proclaim
the Kingdom of God
to the world
Meet me in Galilee
it is not the end
we are just beginning
Life had radically changed from Friday to Sunday on that first Easter. Sunday morning Jesus’ followers and friends were probably woke wondering what to do about it all. Would they return to their fishing nets? To their brick laying? To their Tax Collecting? How were they to live out what Jesus poured into them?
Monday morning brought a different opportunity. With a resurrected Jesus, anything was possible.
We need to take that Resurrection Excitement, that Resurrection Hope into a post-Resurrection Monday morning challenge, like Jesus’ friends did.
Easter, my friend, isn’t just a celebration. It’s a way of life.
Yes! We are the Easter People! Yes! Hallelujah is our Song!
But we need that Galilee meeting!
Where’s Jesus meeting you? Where’s your Galilee? What does your Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday look like? What do you want it to look like?
So very beautiful, Maryleigh! Yes, Resurrection has become a way of life for us, when we let Him pour that new breath into us every day. My Galilee is meeting Him in the preciousness of life, every moment of it a gift. Oh may I see Him more here! Blessings and love to you dear friend!
Bettie, Praising God for what His resurrection has done for our loved ones! So glad you and yours are doing well and celebrating answered prayers! Love and Shalom to you, too!
Oh, I am meeting in Galilee! Hallelujah! Yes, the rejoicing of Christ’s resurrection! I want it to go on and on. I love this post, Maryleigh. I will read it again because I am excited all over again!
Linda, In Galilee – Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Speaking in Tongues, thousands saved – and the rest of their lives spent saving the lost – all kinds of lost! Praying we reach those God gives us with the same Meet Me in Galilee faith! I’m excited with you! Shalom – Maryleigh
Beautiful poem & post Maryleigh! What an amazing Savior we have in Jesus!
Blessings,
Jennifer
Yes, He is an amazing Savior! So glad you stopped by! Shalom, friend! ~ Maryleigh
Maryleigh, I love, love this! There have been more Easters than I care to count where the Monday that followed was just “another day.” I love the reminder that we are an Easter people. I am praying about your questions about where Jesus is meeting me and where my Galilee is. Thank you for this!!
Last week felt like a hard journey to Galilee – and I made it. I’ve arrived with expectation. This week, I’m waiting with expectation!
What a beautiful thought. These words are going to resonate within me ‘Meet me in Galilee’….and I will keep asking myself where that is for me.
Corinne, Last week felt like a hard journey to today. Maybe that is what the trip to Galilee felt like for those that went. Today I’m waiting with expectation! When I wait with expectation, God never fails to arrive!
Maryleigh, beautiful poem and even more amazing thoughts, love this…just want to sit here awhile…
All week long, I’ve been saying over and over, “Meet Me in Galilee” – it was a particularly hard week. I’m praying that last week was a journey, and this week will be a revelation and Holy Spirit infilling!
Very nicely written! I need to meet in Galilee for a refreshing! Thank you for your beautiful words and photography ❤
Thanks so much for coming by – and your kind words! How exciting would it have been to have gone to Galilee then! It just boggles my mind!
I am so very sorry, Maryleigh, for your back issues and will be lifting you in my prayers this week after Resurrection Sunday, 2022. I was just reading a post of mine last evening about living Easter every day. Living Resurrected every day. Living with Hallelujahs on my tongue every day. Meeting Him in Galilee every day. Would you like to meet me there as well, my friend. I look forward to that day…one day!
I raise you to the One Who holds You near and dear.
I’m so sorry about your back. I can relate as I’m getting my second spinal injection tomorrow. Praying for you in this. And as always, I love your writing talent. You have a way with words that always takes me right along with you. Thank you.
Maryleigh, this is just beautiful! “Easter, my friend, isn’t just a celebration. It’s a way of life.” Amen. You brought to mind a song I have been listening to over the last few days – Resurrection Power — https://youtu.be/9Nwcr-Eys40
Praying for you now – may the Lord touch your back, bringing you healing and freedom from pain.
Wow, these are such encouraging words! Thanks for the reminder and for challenging me to live in the reality that Easter is a way of life.
Prayers for your healing!