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15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
This last week I've been away at a training class in Boca Raton(yep I know it's rough work, but someones got to do it). All in all a reasonable week, but in the midst of it I learned some things I didn't want to know about myself. As I was packing up to come home I realized that I am still floundering in grief. For those who are around me each week, and probably some here on this site, I probably cover up the grief with my humor, but it's there, being kept at bay, most of the time.
Now you're probably wondering why I started with image and likeness, I am finding that even in the midst of pain, I am still being changed, I am still being revealed in that image and likeness. I still struggle, and I still find pain a companion, but I am still being changed. The laughter I use to hide the grief is actually real, it is not a mask, it is real. I seldom give in to a public display of the grief, but my heart is very soft towards God and His wonders. When I reach into His presence in worship, I see revealed the fullness of His love. I find myself knowing the depth of His desire for me, even with my grief. St. Gregory of Nazianus said it this way, "That which was not assumed is not healed; but that which is united to God is saved". Even our grief was taken up by Christ in His humanity and taken with that humanity to the cross, into the depth's of hell, into resurrection, and now, has been taken up to the very throne in the heavens. So, I do not struggle alone, this image that I've taken up gets to accompany me on this journey. Even in the "mirror" I am being changed from glory to glory, a gift to be revealed by the action of the Holy Spirit. So like my hero, Reepicheep, I go "farther up and farther in", looking for that time when all will be known without a mirror, and all tears will be dried, and He will be the light of our revelation! |
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