50 days of discovering Jesus.

There are seasons when we sense that something in us is still unfolding. We believe. We follow. We pray. And yet we know there is more. More clarity. More courage. More understanding of what God is doing in and through our lives.

Most of us can point to moments when something shifted. A prayer answered. A perspective changed. A steady peace where there once was fear. Sometimes those changes are dramatic. More often, they are quiet.

For Mary, on this day, it was an awakening to the truth. A realization, all at once, that this was the resurrected Jesus. He calls her by name, and she immediately responds to Him, “Teacher.”

You already have a story. It did not begin the day you opened this reading plan. It is the story of a living Savior still shaping ordinary lives. There may have been immediate shifts, as well as unsettled things still taking shape.

Over the next fifty days, we will slow down enough to notice what He has done, what He is doing, and what He might be calling us into next. There is always something next. That's the exciting part. We live by degrees of freedom. From glory to glory.

In the days ahead, let us step back and create space. Space to reflect. Space to listen. Space to let the life of Jesus take deeper root and, perhaps, take on fresh new meaning.