Psalm 111, Proverbs 2:1-81 Corinthians 1:18-25 and John 20:1-18

I have a friend who is a Roman Catholic nun. She's a lady who's a member of what seems to be a dying order, which recently had to move its convent from a small Missouri town to an acreage near Kansas City.

"I didn't want to move," she said with a little smile on her gentle face, "but when I got here and when I heard the mockingbirds, I knew I had come where God wanted me to be."

That's true wisdom.

God is faithful, even in hard times, and true wisdom is to see that.

"[God] has caused his wonderful works to be remembered," the psalmist says; "the Lord is gracious and merciful."

But sometimes that's easy to forget.

Sometimes as we face grief and death, it seems God has left us.

"They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not kn…