Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and the other day I was

watching an animated version of, now I'm struggling to think of the name, Watership Down.

This is the adaptation of that old book that seemingly shouldn't work, but it kind of does.

It's about rabbits, but it's like an intense story about rabbits who get displaced from their home

and they go looking for another one, but they run into other meaner, bigger rogue rabbits.

It's really a pretty complex story.

And at one point in the show, I'm watching it with the kids.

And I was really proud of how well conditioned they are

to think about story beats because there's a point where

they're being pursued. Some of the rabbits you like are being pursued and they stop to celebrate and high five that they basically got away and everything's

coming together and all my kids are like, you can't stop there.

Think about what just happened. You need to do this and this and this. And in that moment, my kids who were the outsiders to this traumatic difficult scenario the characters are going through on the screen

they were able to clearly see the implications of the situation this just happened

Now you got to do this how many times have you found yourself yelling that at the screen or at the page?

Come on, think about what's going on. This is the only logical way to respond, but you got to cut the characters in these kind of scenarios a little bit of slack

because everybody or almost everybody wilts under pressure it's overwhelming

it takes a minute take stock of everything that's going on and

likewise in Matthew 28 we got a situation here where there's a couple of ladies

who just saw some stuff that doesn't make any sense and it's going to take them a minute

to figure out what the implications of that are. This is what I'm talking about

Matthew 28. 1. After the Sabbath at dawn on the first day of the week Mary

Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the

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