No Distazo About It

Reflection:

The Gospel reading for the Sunday after Easter almost always includes the story of poor "doubting" Thomas.  I say "poor" because I am sure that Thomas has gotten a bad rap.  I mean, put yourself in his shoes:  You're told by your friends that Jesus - who the last you'd heard was very much dead - is in fact alive and had come and breathed all over them!  Don't you think you may have felt a bout of your own doubts, too?

Thomas's story is not so much about doubt - but about belief - in Jesus's presence in our lives and in the life of the church, always.