The Church Of The Holy Rood -- Wool, Dorset, U.K.
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The Church Of The Holy Rood -- Wool, Dorset, U.K.
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The Gift of Life – reality not fictionThis month begins with Mothering Sunday, a day for celebrating the love and care that we see in the lives of mothers of all ages, all over the world and all through time. Mothers give life to their children and at our Mothering Sunday service we will recall the story of Moses’ mother. She was faced with a choice between her son being killed by the Egyptians or hiding him in a basket in the rushes at the edge of the river. Painful though it must have been for a new mother, she took the only option that offered any hope of life to her son. And the miracle was that he was found and adopted by an Egyptian princess. Moses’ mother had to let go of him in order to give him life. The film Atonement also deals with an attempt to give new life to others: a novelist tries to give back her older sister and her lover the life they were denied as a result of her actions as a child. Without wishing to give too much away, if you haven’t see the film, there is no miracle and the gift of a new life remains purely a work of fiction.
May you know the reality of new life with God this Easter.
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As
we celebrate Holy Week and Easter, later in the month, we turn to another and
even greater miracle of new life. This is no work of fiction, but the underlying
fact of the Christian faith: Jesus gave up his life on the cross and was raised
to new life by God the Father in order to offer us a new life freed from the
consequences of our inability to live in total obedience to Him. This miracle
enables us to re-write the story of our relationship with God so that it becomes
a living reality. This is Atonement: the giving up of life to put right past
wrongs, heal a broken relationship and give new life. 