If Only You Had Been Here

This week we stand with Jesus, Mary, and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus and we do so from Dostoevsky's perspective. The power in the story of Lazarus, is not, for me, at the resurrection of the dead man, but when Jesus, who knows what will happen, still stands with the sisters and mourns with them.  This is the Jesus we serve, the man of sorrows who stands in the place of sorrow with us, and calls us to do the same with the world.