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April 26, 2006
it is unfortunate that...
... only a handful of posts ago i was commenting on the snow-layers on cars driving by in st. elmo.
since then the season has changed from winter to the poking buds of early spring, and again from early spring to the thick green foliage of Appalacia in late april.
i will soon be taking a 'retreat' of sorts, which from all perspectives seems foreordained. I will be housesitting on a lake in Soddy Daisy, which will give me the chance to do something thinking, writing, and praying during the next two weeks. And during that time I will also be graduating from college and transitioning into the real world (for real) this time. Good time for solitude. My friend Susan recently said these wise things, prodding me to 'grieve' a bit for my college years...
"we were talking about the whole idea of resurrection. the simple, obvious, and easily forgotten truth of the matter is that there is no resurrection without death. and our lives as believers are supposed to be completely about the work of redemption that's embodied in the resurrection. so this leaves us with the fact that our lives, by nature of involving a lot of life and resurrection, are going to also involve a whole lot of death. i think that our twenties are a decade of many deaths ... the kind that come in the form of change ... change in identity, location, vocation, personal theology, friendships, family, etc. so the hope is that while we are mourning almost more than we can bear, we can also keep our eyes peeled for the life that's growing in death's place. we can keep our ears out for Jesus' voice ... and, like lazarus, we hear his voice most powerfully when we are lying helpless in the tomb. how beautiful to think of these hard moments of sadness as opportunities to be called back to life by Christ himself. it encourages me, perhaps it will you too.
Posted by tacyjane at April 26, 2006 11:57 AM
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I like the quote!Posted by: Meredith at April 27, 2006 09:31 AM
whoa. thank you tacy. that resonated with my heart. wish i could be at graduation. walk proudly across the stage. i will cheer for you in china. i loved walking across the stage. maybe loved it too much. but i sort of wished i'd fallen. it would have made a good most-embarrasing-moment story and it would have been greatly symbolic of our 20's.Posted by: brae at April 27, 2006 09:22 PM