Letter #24: He’s Alive
Dear Michael, I can not write this fast enough, but JESUS IS ALIVE! I know it sounds crazy, but it is true! Earlier this morning I realized that something was up. There were people running from house to house in a hurry. I was able to stop one of the men doing this and asked him what is happening, and he told me. The stone guarding Jesus’ tomb has been moved and His body is gone. At first anger rose up in me…who would dare take His body like that!? But the man kept speaking. He continued on and said there were women headed to the tomb and saw, not only an angel there, but Jesus Himself. In that moment it was like someone hit me with a ton of bricks. I struggled to process this at first. As I wrote to you perviously, the matter of Jesus’ death has been extremly hard for me. In hearing this I initially rejected this idea of Jesus being alive. That these men were looking to gain something from manipulating those who cared for Jesus. But Michael, the way in which he spoke of this told m
