Post-Easter Morning

"Why did you come away?" I am wondering what would Peter and the beloved disciple be doing after the Easter morning events. In Matthew's Gospel Jesus instructed the disciples to go to Galilee and the Fourth Gospel tells that Jesus prepared a meal of bread and fish by the shore. This gives us an idea that the disciples after the Easter morning resurrection events went back to Galilee and decided to go fishing. Personally, I doubt if the disciples were really opting to go back to what they've been formerly doing for good. I think they're not. Psychologically persons who went through difficult times, would go on retreat and hopes to get through with it.

Anent this, the disciples could have asked the question "Why did you come away?" It is just like graduating from high and college, when friendships have to end, if not suspended. In the case of Jesus and the disciples, they underwent a process of psychological adjustment--both on the affect and cognitive aspects. The separation between the teacher and student at first can be emotionally disruptive, especially when the learning relationships was not feudal but of respect and genuine concern. But later the teacher in search for his or her own future would inevitably leave and the learners become teachers themselves.

There is that assurance as well that Jesus will come again, in the same manner he left them. He ascended to heaven and now seated at the right hand of God the Parent. While I hope for his coming back, that does not preoccupy my life now, because what is more important is how put to practice what I've learned from Jesus. The post-Easter days of the disciples as we know from the book of Acts of the Apostles were filled with awe and wonder-they change the world in which they live. They had traverse dangerous places and situations. They had weathered the storms of life. Our post-Easter days is living in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. With that I'm greatly challenged to get a tune-up with the Spirit's fire.