Living Resurrection in the Covid-19 Gloom

So here we are, week 7 of lock-down and starting the fifth week of Easter. It is all very different this year. Well, at least in our doom and uncertainty we get uplifting readings about the risen Jesus celebrating resurrection and eternal life. Except we do not. Stephen gets stoned and Jesus is in his final pep talk with his friends and disciples as they and he prepare for the horrors and uncertainty that lie ahead. So, I guess it is time to start living out for ourselves in our own time of uncertainty what resurrection and ascension might mean for us.
In our grief of what has been and uncertainty about what will be, we join those disciples in the room with Jesus, and those disciples John wrote for listening to this version of Jesus final summary of everything that had been said and done up to this point. We are invited to abide in the compassion and love of God made known in Jesus. And that involves living this simple message.
“Trust that God is the way Jesus told us and demonstrated to us. That means two things, especially as we now think canonically and include more of the story of Jesus from the other gospels: we can trust in the God of compassion in which there’s a place for us (even if we know nothing else!) and we can know that the meaning of life is to share that compassion in the world - there’s a place for all! We can join that compassion wherever we recognise its ‘Jesus shape’, acknowledging it as life and truth and the only way.”[1][1]
I wonder where we see that Jesus shape in the way people are responding to our current situation. What might that invite us to?
As we wait for what will be, may we abide in God's compassion, and live that compassion for ourselves and others. Be kind to yourself and others. Stay safe. Stay calm. Wash your hands.

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