Today I'm making a switch to another part of Alison's book. It is the chapter named "The Intelligence of the Victim and the Distortion of Desire". I'm hoping it will make us all look a bit differently at the resurrection and the life that comes through it. I will start with my usual 'growing text' so as to keep together one stream of Alison's writing. The resurrection made possible an understanding of being human as in some way, yet to be discussed, unnecessarily involved in death. It is, as it were, the fact of the resurrection which revealed the fact of unnecessary human involvement in death, the possibility of forgiveness reaching even into human death He captures me with the comment about how we as humans are unnecessarily involved in death - when we consider the resurrection. There is something more grand - more thorough - than death - and we have been shown that it is the power of forgiveness. This 'forgiveness' is a power (available to humanity) that does not let death win the day. In fact, no matter what power death may have and no matter what part humanity may play in that power, forgiveness opens up to us a life in which death is not the last word. We could say that we hold a secret that must be let out to the world - a word of truth that moves us out of the realm of death and into the realm of possibilities outside of our usual limits. Connection: Giving forgiveness a try is a must - it is the resurrection power for life and it is ours to enter and ours to hand off to the world. Seems like nothing at all - but it is the power to counter death. O God of life, again and again make us into a forgiving people. Amen. |
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