If I Could Save Time in a Bottle...
If I Could Save Time in a Bottle… Devotional for the United Church of Christ Science and Technology Network March 31, 2018 Rev. Dr. Ruth E. Shaver [God] has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, [God] has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. —Ecclesiastes 3:11, NRSV, alt. Holy Saturday is an odd day in history. Looking back from the next day, or 50 days later, or roughly 2000 years later, we can see that this was a “ Schrödinger’s tomb ”* moment: either Jesus was dead, as the events of Friday testified, or Jesus was alive, as Jesus himself had promised. The disciples, women and men alike, went with the testimony of time and experience, only to be mightily surprised—or, as the Gospel of Mark says, traumatically ecstatic—the next morning. We know because of the way history has unfolded that Easter Sunday was a pivot point in time. The world was categorica