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Ponderings of Grace - Ascension Thursday

 

"... wait for the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak..."

"...you will receive power and you will be my witnesses..."

Even after the Resurrection, the disciples still clung to the vision of an Israel restored to glorious worldly power. They still had not grasped the "reign of God" that Jesus preached. I can only imagine their panic and confusion at his departure.

Like them, we are still learning, still being taught by the Holy Spirit, the breadth and depth and height and length, the unplumbed mystery of the reign of God. Like them, we need to wait for the Spirit. Like them, we need to live the power entrusted to us and witness to the overwhelming and inclusive Love that our God is.

How am I being called to embrace more deeply the mission entrusted to me?

How am I being called to witness to God's love?

---Rita Woehlcke, SSJ