It is this confrontation with our own demise that has the power to jar us into dealing with the other great problem of our lived experience: namely sin and its consequences.
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How able are we to see across the two sides of the veil?
This event symbolizes how healing that is done in and through Christ moves us into service in the kingdom of God.
Because within this story, we see ideas and patterns around things like conflict, non-violence, and community that are incredibly relevant for us today.
Mark seems to be telling us that this is how one follows Jesus: Without all the details; without much of a roadmap; just putting one foot in front of the other and seeing where Jesus takes us.
So how do we to respond, as Christians, to this violence and the threats of violence? What do our scriptures today have to say about this?
We need to also know that the movement of love that we recognize as Holy Spirit is happening all the time.
If we really want to ‘be there’, we have to ‘get there’.
This beautiful passage from John’s Gospel moves us from the very ‘down-to-earth’ birth narrative of Luke…to the cosmic event that John celebrates so poetically.
When it comes to the meaning of ‘power’, the Christmas story says to us ‘attraversiamo’.