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After Jesus rose from the dead, His first appearances were to women. Why? One obvious reason might be that it was women who followed Him to His death on Good Friday, while the men largely abandoned Him. As well, it was women, not men, who set off for His tomb on Easter morning, hoping to anoint His dead body with spices – so it was women who were in the garden when He first appeared. But there is, I believe, a deeper and more symbolic reason. Women are the midwives.
Jesus’ resurrection birthed new life into our world, and in its infancy, that life had to be specially midwifed, both in its emergence and in the initial breaths it took in this world.
Prominent within what the Resurrection gives birth to and what needs still to be midwifed, is hope. The Resurrection gives birth to hope. The women in the Gospels who first met the resurrected Jesus were the first to be given a true reason for hope and were the first to act as midwifes of that new birth. So too must we. We need to become midwives of hope.
Here’s an example: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a deeply faith-filled scientist, was once challenged by an agnostic colleague after making a presentation within which he tried to show how the story of salvation history fits perfectly with the insights of science regarding the origins of the universe and the process of evolution.
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