“If only I could see Jesus.”

That’s what we think in really hard and lonely moments.

If Jesus would appear and sit with us and fix things, we’d be happy.

We wouldn’t be lonely.
We wouldn’t be scared.
We wouldn’t be sick, maybe, or our loved one wouldn’t die.
We’d know the right things to do.
We’d know he isn’t mad at us.

It’s not as simple as that, for most of us. Including the disciples we read about today.

On the evening of the day he rose from the dead, Jesus appeared in the room where the disciples were meeti...