memento resurrectionis

A Sabbath post…

In death as in birth, we go not alone.

The biblical story is one of continual lost potential on this side of Eden. The offer to resurrection life was never a sham, never a far off reality, but a misunderstood gift. The hope of followers of the one called the Christ is in His words—”I am in you and you are in me”— as we grow into increasingly united but beautifully diverse bearers of the imago dei within…

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together,
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you…

T.S Eliot, The Waste Land

The glory to which man is called is that he should grow more godlike by growing ever more human…

Fr Dumitru Staniloae, Orthodoxy, Life in the Resurrection

For death is not the end of life but the beginning of its renewal…

Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will announce My words to you.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel. But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

Jeremiah 18:1-4

When you walk
Through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid
Of the dark…

Walk on
Walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone…

Gerry & the Pacemakers, “You’ll never walk alone” (Penny & Sparrow version ftw)