Episode 145: Resurrection Is a Pattern

Thank you for journeying through this series with me. The messages and feedback you've shared have meant so much — knowing it's landed in a meaningful way has been such a gift.

And we're ending with what might be the truth I love most: resurrection is a pattern. Not just a moment. Not just something that happened on one Sunday morning two thousand years ago. But something God does — over and over again — in each of our lives.

Here's what I've noticed though. Sometimes new life doesn't look like we expect it to.

The pattern goes like this: Friday. Saturday. Sunday.

Friday is the place of loss, pain, and endings. Saturday is the waiting — the silence, the uncertainty, the in-between. And Sunday is resurrection. New life. The thing you didn't see coming.

We want to skip straight to Sunday. But just because you're in the middle doesn't mean something is wrong. It means you're in the pattern.

Resurrection doesn't always look like restoration. Sometimes it looks like a new perspective, a deeper faith, healing in a place that once felt broken, or the courage to move forward on a different path. Even the disciples didn't recognize Jesus at first — new life doesn't always look like what we lost.

That's why resurrection can feel so subtle. We expect something dramatic and instead it shows up quietly — in the way we respond differently than we used to, or feel peace where we once knew anxiety, or finally take a step we couldn't take before.

Resurrection is often quiet before it becomes visible.

Three questions to sit with this week:

Is there a place in your life that feels like Friday?

Where are you in a Saturday season — waiting, unsure, in the in-between?