Monday, April 14, 2014

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. (1 John 3:2a)

Today's reflection is by Cameron Partridge
Episcopal Chaplain at Boston University


Toward the end of high school I went on a family trip down the middle fork of the American River, near Sacramento California.  For two days we learned how to steer as a group, how to push forward, how to reverse out of a jam, when to stop and let the current take over.  One section of the river included a class five rapid—“the Shoot” I believe it was called—into which we moved forward with a mixture of care and abandon.  At first we steered to the left, then to the right, paddling madly to avoid hidden vortexes.  At a certain point we shifted from our seats to the bottom of the boat, holding our paddles straight up in the air.  We hurdled through a kind of spin cycle and were spat out at the bottom, soaking but exhilarated.
 
Each Holy Week we journey into the Paschal Mystery of death and resurrection, a metamorphosis beyond our wildest imagining. We enter assured that we are indeed God’s children now, even as we don’t know what we will be on the other side.  We may paddle into this week with great gusto, but ultimately we must cede to the current, as we sit together on the floor of our little boat.

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