And the Holy Spirit, we are learning around Saint Thomas, makes Herself known in wonderful, unexpected ways every single day. Even as we gather in our Sunday best week after week, we know that parts of us seem to have died. When it feels like there is not enough life to go around, we stop giving of ourselves. It requires an end to our holding back. Jesus poured out his life on the cross for you and for me and the mystery of His resurrection reveals a vital truth for us.
Life is renewed through the continual laying down of life.
Jesus offering of himself is nothing less than an invitation into the very life of God. In the economy of God, what happens next is not necessarily what has happened before. What is too good to be true, can happen. The promises of God start with a promise that life is more than it seems. What God can see, that we can only glimpse, is a life for us full of color, full of mystery and love.