Resurrection Escape

 

                                     morning light

“Resurrection is escape from every confine,

even of time and space.”steve garnaas-holmes


The consequence of escape is freedom and true liberation is also a product of God’s time and space. 


I often think that that which transports us from chronological time and physical space into something eternal is blessing. Blessing selects that which grace mysteriously touches and illuminates.


I am remembering a gloriously beautiful dawning on the beach. Marked by a gentle breeze and rhythmic cadence of waves I had to resist my urge to capture the moment and take it with me, which would of course result in disappointment. Yet instead of a growing sadness I blessed this moment as transformative and let it fill a crack of emptiness. 


When I rose it was as if I were lighter in my being and able to move differently in this world. I felt filled by an unknown, numinous vastness whose lightness of being lifted my own.


This must be resurrection escape from some incarceration.

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