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Resurrection Re-membered – Today is Easter Sunday. Through Lent we have been reading the stories in the Gospel of Luke leading up to Holy Week and now Easter. In those stories we have noted a number of times when people, even those close to Jesus, had become discouraged and failed him, as, for example, Peter and Judas, but others as well. In her sermon Carol recounts a time when she was on a walk and some people coming toward her told her as she walked farther to look up and see an owl in a tree. She did and saw a beautiful owl and may not have seen it if she hadn’t been told. Today’s story from Luke is about the women who go to the tomb intending to pay their respects, grieve, and embalm the body. Instead, there is no body, and two beings appear and challenge them to remember what Jesus had told them – that he would one day die and then be raised. The women, upon leaving the empty tomb, immediately go to the disciples and others to report. Their report helps the disciples remember and re-member, that