Dear Diary, This has been the longest, most difficult, most awesome day of my life, and as exhausted as I am, I cannot put my head to sleep without telling of this day.  So many confusing things are happening that I can’t comprehend, for now I just want to empty my head, because I know these are mysterious times and I am trying so hard to honor them.   This morning I awoke before dawn to go to Jesus’ tomb, it was still dark when I arrived.  I was so shocked because the front stone of the tomb was moved aside. I didn’t know what to do and I was so afraid, I ran to get Peter.  Along the way I wondered, has someone stolen the body, was Jesus in there, did someone desecrate his body?  I should have gone in and looked, I should have been braver, I was so afraid, and I feared the Romans were watching me.  I ran straight to the guys to protect me.   I told Peter and the other disciples they must have stolen Jesus from the tomb, where do you think th...

  Matthew 27:62-66 The Tomb 62  The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63  “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64  So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.” 65  “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66  So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.   My name is Miriam, many call me Mary; I am the mother of the crucified one.   I know it is the Sabbath and the Passover, but I must go to the tomb of my son, Jeshua, the one they call Jesus. I walk alone and am glad, because my heart is so broken I just need time alone. Of...

  As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33  They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 34  There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35  When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36  And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37  Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews . 38  Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39  Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40  and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41  In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42  “He saved others,” th...