“I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
Thankfully, we are not dead yet, but are we truly living?
No one could have predicted that first Easter morning.
All hope seemed to be gone.
And then… God speaks – just like at the dawn of Creation – and things are transformed.
Suddenly, there is a new story to tell
of how love can transform even the darkest experience.
Death gives way to the light of the resurrection.
Jesus breaks free from the tomb.
And we are set free – free from our old habits and cycles, free from our anxiety and worry, free from our self-consciousness and self-centredness, free to make a new life.
We’ll look at the radical, counter-cultural transformation that Jesus taught in one of the most well-known parables of all time: Luke 10.25-37 The Good Samaritan.
We find hope in Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Easter prayer, “Good is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death. Victory is ours, through him who loves us.”
And as we come to the end of our series we look back and reflect upon the challenges that have been raised and seek new ways of living.
Thanks for joining us on the journey.
Reflections from Ghent 