The Reign of God as reconciling. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as reconciling is active - alive - available - always open to a new way to go about the day. There will be differences all around us. That is life. Those differences can be the death of us - leading us away from one another or leading us toward one another ready for battle. The Reign of God as reconciling moves us toward one another so that our separation will end. It is also leading toward one another so that we will open to giving up our lives for the sake of the other if it is needed. That is a revolutionary move. The Reign of God as reconciling is not out to secure itself at the cost of any other person. Rather, we walk toward one another as ones open and vulnerable to change - even when the change may look as though it will kill us. Usually that which is killed is all the stuff onto which we think we must hold or we will fall apart. And yet, in the act of reconciliation nothing falls apart - it is dismantled to make room for something new to come to life. O God of love and new life, open our hearts to the expansive newness of life that is eternally presenting itself to us even when we feel as though we are at the end of all life. Amen. |
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