meanderings

Many of us have experienced the death of somebody close. Grief comes in two parts: facing death as a fact, and facing death as a reality that will last for the rest of your life. When someone is close to us, as spouse, mother, father, child, we carry them around as an inner mother or whatever that relationship was. After death people can continue as a powerful force in our lives. You talk to your inner mother, or husband, and even listen to them.
In the weeks after Easter, the apostles were doing more than that. At the very centre of our faith is the conviction that Jesus is alive, and alive in a glorified body, not just as a ghost. He always comes bringing peace, a deep comfort in the realization of his continuing presence and care for us. The church grew up against all the odds in a hostile world, around the presence of the risen Christ. The apostles knew he was with them through the Holy Spirit. On the strength of that, a handful of uneducated fishermen went on to carry the news of the risen Jesus to the ends of the earth..... sacred space

we all live with ghosts.
what’s important, i think, is what we say to those ghosts as much as what they say to us

faceless
reduced to two letters
the
incredibly
shrinking
me
what
am i
hiding
from?