Here's a brilliantly challenging quote from Lucy Winkett's Our Soul Is Our Wound (from chapter 4 The Sound Of resurrection):
Jonah's belly of the fish, the tomb of lazarus, reminds us of our own potential for living. As adults we often struggle to accept the abundant, extravagant, astonishing life that Jesus offers. As we prepare to face our own fear of the actual and unavoidable journey through our own death and resurrection, we find hints of that fear in our lives now. Through the walls of the tombs we build for ourselves bricked up with low expectations, safe patterns of behaviour that keep us irresponsible, will we hear the roar of God, the shout of Christ's compassion, Christ's exultation mixed with deep anger calling us to live in the light and in the presence of God?
Wow! Am I living this abundant life promised by Jesus? I live in a 'safe' world (here in the west). These 'safe patterns of behaviour' and 'low expectations' keep me from the astonishing life offered by Jesus.
If I listen carefully i can hear the sound of Christ's voice calling me into an astonishing life...
prompting me out of the tomb of my fears and leading me into an abundant life...
It's the sound of resurrection!
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