Life returning confuses us. With no body in the grave, the disciple women and men, the soldiers, the authorities were all in disarray. Jesus’ followers were ambivalent: joy and hope, yes, but also denial, doubt and chilling fear.
How to hold all these? How to live on in the present with such ambiguity: generosity, suffering, waiting, love, anxiety and joy … everything changing, absence, certainties gone.
Where are there ambiguities in the life I am living? Where did there used to be certainty, but now unknowing?
How do I hold the tension of the violence of, for example, the food chain, alongside our trust in a loving Creator God?
Where are the signs of hope? Of the reign of the loving God being at hand – ‘now-but-not-yet?
You can find a series of three Easter reflections with an ‘eco’ theme here
In a new season, life returns at Breathing Space from 6th April: we look forward to welcoming you, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Groups are welcome any day by arrangement.