+ Two beautiful and quite descriptive and imaginative readings
are given to us to contemplate today. Both readings have to do with
the all too human dynamics of struggle and surrender, labor and rest, conflict
and resolution, death and life.
They also have to do with the
very human and even manly activity of crying out to God in distress, being
heard by him, and allowing the resolution that God had in mind all along begin
to play out, now successfully and productively: there is nothing so soothing
than to have the peace of God descend on you after you have been through the
wringer!
And so God proves himself to
be the “God of the living” – those who must endure what life throws at them,
and actually gifts them with; because how else would one even meet and be the
recipient of the unimagined and more satisfying than we can ever imagine
solutions to our real and often-times difficult burdens that are part and
parcel of being human.
And again, we must not forget
that Jesus volunteered to come and taken on this broken and fragile human
estate, so that he could transform it, heal it, and bring it a newness that
would be worth all the trials and tribulations that we go through to get there!
Jesus said, and says again to
us today: I am the RESURRECTION and the
LIFE, he who believes in me shall never die! – but shall live in eternal
bliss!
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