April 14, 2006

• On this day the Lord has acted...

  
  

  If you hear thunder today, don't be surprised - that is as it should be, for on this day, Good Friday, God broke into our time-bound world with a horrendous crash, and we will never be the same.  A baby is born, poor like many, in a make-shift shelter like some, and receives preparations for a funeral (myrrh) as a birth gift like none other.  This baby was born in the shadow of the cross, human ibued with the divine, God incarnate....  only his mother aware at first of the awe-some and awe-ful nature of this child.

  
  

  When Jesus accepted God's call to death, death on a cross, the death of a criminal, a death he did not deserve, he rewrote the human story of disobedience that had begun with Adam and Eve.  No longer are we doomed to languish in our sin, but now have a new paradigm, a new pattern of possibility.  And this death, this atonement, this rewriting is once for all -- every time we fall back into our disobedience, Jesus points the way out for us.

  
  

   

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