What about Monday?

What did he do on Monday? You know, the day after the resurrection? Or maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Did he teach some Bible studies? Did he do some board meetings? Did he go to the sing-a-longs at the local synagogue? Did he heal, raise, help? What did he do?

We don't know. Forty days of something from the man resurrected from the dead and nobody wrote about it for the most part. Many days and nights without a record.

Here's what we know, sort of: He appeared in Jerusalem first, or perhaps Galilee. He appeared to the disciples later on that incredible Sunday and breathed on them and told them not to leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit appeared. He appeared in the upper room the week after the resurrection with wounds still visible on his wrists (or hands), feet and side so that Thomas could be made a believer. But when he appeared to them on the shores of Galilee, which for some reason they did go back to fishing, they didn't recognize him. He appeared to Peter. He appeared to James, his brother, and changed that man's life completely. He appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus.

Paul says he appeared to more than 500 at one time at one point, which is a wonder that 500 would get together for anything they were so scared of the Romans.

But as near as I can tell, we know nothing about Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of the week that followed the resurrection.

I would love to think that he appeared in Pilate's bedroom and woke up the sleeping governor and his wife and said, "nana nana nana, or something to that effect," but if he did, he never told anyone about it. I would like to think he appeared to his mother and said he was alright, but she isn't listed among those whom he appeared personally. Of course, none of the women he appeared to on the fateful morning at the tomb are listed either by Paul in the official record, and one knows that the Gospel writers included them.

My point is this: He did something, I believe, that furthered the cause of what would become Christianity every day for 40 days. That we don't know what it was is meaningless any more so than what someone does today in China or someone does today in Honduras or someone does today in Mandeville, La, USofA. We don't need records to understand that someone is helping someone today in the name of Jesus. Jesus did so, as well.

That he rose from the dead is undeniable. That he allowed others to see him is equally undeniable.

What did he do on Monday?

Maybe what he's doing for me as I type. He changed lives.