but
its destination is not of this world.
It
lies beyond time, in eternity.
We
do not know much about life in eternity.
What
clues we have come, mostly, from Jesus –
from
his own stories of the kingdom of
God
to come on earth as it is in heaven, and
from
the accounts in the New Testament,
of
experiences of his presence after
his
resurrection. What we glimpse of
the
resurrected life we will come to
know
through him –
But
only surely in his own presence.
Until
that encounter becomes real to us,
we
live in the shadow of not knowing.
Peace
be with you, he says to the disciples, as he
becomes
present among them,
in
the upper room where they
have
gathered again after his death.
Peace
be with you, he says to them,
as
they absorb the living presence of
the
one before them – there he is
among
them: the resurrection
is
real.
Hello
boys!
Got
anything to eat? he greets them,
on
another occasion. They seem to have
come
to an end of their own resources
when
he shows up, cooking breakfast
for
them, there on the beach.
Come
to me. Come and eat.
Perhaps
that is a clue to the mystery
What
we hear is an invitation
what
we see is a meal –
the
Lord sets the Table,
the
Lord invites us to eat
as
in heaven
may
it be on earth.
Amen.
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