Wisdom 3 :1-3

Read: 

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and no torment will ever touch them.
² In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,
and their departure was thought to be a disaster,
³ and their going from us to be their destruction;
but they are at peace. 

Think: 

Today we had a mass given in memory of my father in law and this was one of the passages.

In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died.  I was thinking as this was read, I wasn't thinking he was dead, I saw him dead.  I can only imagine what it must have been like to see Jesus dead, to bury him and then see him resurrected.  It made me think about how insane and how liberating it is to believe that resurrection isn't only possible but that it happened and because of it happening to Jesus' that some day it will happen for us all.  I'm not sure completely about a bodily resurrection for all people.  But I do believe in a spiritual resurrection and I do believe in a spiritual renewal and a chance to be reunited with the rest of the beloved creation of God.

Pray: 

Dear God, Thank you for the give of resurrection.  Help me to remember that it isn't hocus pocus but the reality of life.  That we are your creation and that in your time you will bring us into oneness and completeness through the Son and the Holy Spirit.   Amen

Contemplation: 

I've been thinking about this all morning churning the thought in the back of my head.  How foolish it seems to believe in the resurrection, but how foolish it is to think that death is the end.