Topic: Grief

The resurrection awaits us. It awaits us now as we live into our experience of the love of God, growing in us and through us. The resurrection awaits us too, that moment when life as we know it is no more, and we enter fully into the life and love of God.

Jesus is heart-broken when we refuse his call to gather with him in a place of powerlessness, vulnerable to the hostility of a power-hungry world.

Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.

When we respond to the call to model our lives on his life, the life of the One who has seen the Father, then, like him, we must not sidestep or avoid suffering.

In times when we strive to see but cannot, when we struggle to understand and can find no satisfactory answers in the face of issues that confuse us, we can still search for communion with the one who knows all things, who understands all things.

Our anticipation of new life in Christ, though not removing all grief, allows us to find hope in the mercy and love of God.

The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.

The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.

In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.

Lent can be a dark night filled with tears and mourning and loss, but it is worth it, for God’s joy comes in the morning.

In the aftermath of the Port Arthur Massacre, we need to see what it means to follow Christ through the valley of death.