Where the Truth is, the Son is…
Where Life is, the Spirit is…
And where pain and suffering and loss are,
All three are, as there can be no experiencing of the Trinity,
Except through pain, grieve and loss as it is through these, that grace gives way to joy and then to love.
“You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy." ~Jesus
Grace means learning to be a fully human being, with all that entails! What in all its meaning it is to be alive, to experience life abundantly. To be able to know when you are dying that you lived! (And we are all dying) You really lived!
To agree with Thoreau, “… to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…” in every moment that we are given to be alive and know that we are not alone in the living of it – we have our friends, our community of grace all around us.
God knew what he was creating when he made us and then later he intimately experienced what being human is, through Jesus, God becoming man!
He knows, he knows, he knows what we feel – all of what it means to walk on the earth. To feel the ground beneath us, to have rain fall on us and the sun warm our face – he knows.
He also knows suffering and joy, pain, loss and happiness – he laughed and cried, got tired, took a nap and died! He knows!
As Brennan Manning has written, “Jesus expects more failure out of us, than we do…” he knew a Peter that denied him and a Thomas that doubted him and a Judas that betrayed him. But he also knew who each really were and how amazing the grace of his Father is. That is why he came to die, to free us to live the abundant life we all are intended to live – the wide open life that only grace makes possible.
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