Traveling

“The frustrating thing, as always, is that I don’t know and you don’t know how God is going to do new things here, in our own lives or our own communities. That is why we need to cling on for dear life to the story of Jesus, and to learn as best we can to see the story of our community, and the story of our personal lives, like two musical lines held in between the story of Jesus and the deep notes of the Old Testament which explain it and give it depth. And that is why we shall stand at the foot of the cross on Good Friday, to bring our griefs and sorrows, our bereavements and our puzzlement, to the one who has gone down into the darkness on our behalf. And as we learn to do that for ourselves, for our neighbors, for our community, we learn the lesson which we as Christian folk need to learn again and again: that unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies it remains a single grain, but if it dies it will bear much fruit.”   NT Wright, Christians at the Cross

I’m slipping away until Easter, but hope that the rest of this week finds you clinging to the story of Jesus as you listen for the music of redemption and resurrection.