January 25, 2023

“You have to lose / You have to learn how to die / If you want to want to be alive / Okay?” 

That Bible Truth is from Wilco. Jesus says it this way. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24)

I know this to be true, as oxymoronic as it is. Don’t you? By your life that is impotent and stale (“alone” as Jesus says) until you experience some kind of death. Then – voila – living is on the other side!

Okay?

“Almighty God, whose dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Monday in Holy Week – BCP)