| Sometimes I know that I am fascinated by stuff that many find odd. This stuff by Alison makes me look at so much of what I have learned and look with new eyes. This is an anthropological discovery of unimaginable proportions. At exactly the same moment as God is revealed as quite beyond any human understanding marked by death, entirely gratuitous love, so also it is revealed that the human understanding marked by death is something accidental to being human, not something essential. Here we have the linchpin of any understanding of original sin: that what we are as beings-toward-death is itself something capable of forgiveness. I will continue more of this tomorrow. I am most caught up again by the importance of forgiveness. It simply blows my mind and makes me refocus everything. Death -and all of the ways- does not have complete control over us. We can be forgiveness in the world and it is the power to break the cycle of death when it is trying to overwhelm us. Yes, death will be there - it will invade our living space - it will be that which breaks life apart - and yet, we can and are empowered to stand up and resist this power of death in real life ways. So, in families, with friends, in our communities we have the ability to make a witness of life to and with others. Connection: We are capable of forgiveness - that is a whole new world that is open to us all. Lord of the Resurrection, in your power we forgive and the day can be new to us. Amen. |
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