We don't re-live old days but rather re-vitalize the whole of life, just as the resurrected Jesus was unlike the one who had died.
My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Process of Resurrection
Resurrection is not so much a fact as a process. It is a day-to-day and on-going activity accomplishing itself in the overcoming of the dying in ourselves and of the people and things around us. This refutation of deadness, however, does not permit the mere recycling of old life. Coming to life, beginning to be all over requires an entirely new life, a new way of living, something as new as the new day in which it will be breathed and exhausted, making way for what is to come next.
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