To be a
Christian means to necessarily be an optimist because we remember what happened
on the third day! We know the final stage of death, Jesus' leap of faith, was
not in vain. He was not put to shame, and "God raised him up" (which is the
correct way to say it, and not that he rose himself). Most of human life is Holy
Saturday, a few days of life are Good Friday, but there only needs to be one
single Easter Sunday for us to know the final and eternal pattern. We now live
inside of such cosmic hope.
Jesus trusted
enough to outstare the darkness, to outstare the void, to hold out for the
resurrection of the forever-awaited "third day,” and not to try to manufacture
His own. That is how God stretches and expands the soul, and makes it big enough
to include God.
You see, to love
fully is to die! (When you fully unite with the other, the separate self is
gone.) What is handed over to God is always returned to us transformed into
Christ Consciousness. Easter is the eternal third day that we forever await, but
today we are content to live in the belly of the whale, in liminal space, in the
"in between" that is most of human life. God is creating a Big Space inside of
you. Just wait!
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