Holy Saturday can feel somewhat confusing. This quiet day Jesus spent in the tomb is easily overshadowed by the two days that surround it. After all, what reveals God’s love for us any more perfectly than Christ’s Good Friday death on the cross? And what could inspire hope and confidence in our hearts like calling to mind Christ’s triumph over death, which we will sing out in tomorrow’s Easter joy? If the moment when God’s only Begotten Son breathed his last stands before us in all the chilling sharpness of a bright flash of lightning across a starless sky, and if the unspeakable joy of Jesus’ resurrection strengthens our hearts with all the intensity of the most piercing clap of thunder, then Holy Saturday places us in the quiet moment between the lightning and the thunder. On this day that falls so starkly in between two others, we may feel inclined to ask—what is God doing while Christ lay dead and buried?