Coracle Trust E-Reflections
Lent: Visions and Vision
Thursday 24 March 2011
Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out. John 5:28
Resurrection, stained glass of Sainte Chappelle. Photo by Sailko
Take another look
We settle for new ideas. Jesus invites us to have new eyes. We settle for our vision of the future: an amalgam of memory, rebellion against our yesterdays, the latest fashion to flit across the screen of the mind - all seasoned with a light dose of imagination. Jesus offers a different kind of vision, a different kind of seeing. Jesus (of all people!) can do nothing by himself. He can only do what he sees His Father doing.
Rub your eyes again
Time to rub the sleep-walking haze from our eyes and look again. The God of resurrection is present – “is now come” - raising the dead. What have I labelled impossible? Who have I written off? What part of me have I considered too intransigent to change? Rub these eyes again. See God raising the dead and sense yourself crossing over from death to life. Now I see. Despite liturgical protocol, Resurrection light does touch the Lenten path! Peter Neilson (Trustee)