May 25, 2022

There are only 2 forces that can get you off of the scorekeeping hamster wheel (aka – the Law). The first is love (aka – grace). Love/grace travels outside of karma. It breaks in from the outside to set you free from the this for that skullduggery of the devil. Love/grace is entirely unrelated to deserving, whether you think you deserve good or bad. Contingency gets buried with Christ in his tomb.

Which leads to the second force – death. Death is God’s only prerequisite for resurrection (aka – a life completely ungoverned by tit for tat). You are going to die eventually, so why not do it now? As Wilco sings, “You’re gonna lose / You have to lose / You have to learn how to die.”

Terrifying to let go of all that you think is life? Really? Is holding on for dear life in the game of life really living? Dying is a super short step to take. In fact, you are already there, so just relax, why don’t you?

Straight from the bible: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)

“Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast allour care on you who care for us: Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, that no clouds of this mortal lifemay hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested to us in your Son Jesus Christour Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany – BCP p. 216)