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I think that this is one of the most important posts Roses in the Alley will make in its short life thus far. And it is actually a re-post. Please, stop what you are doing and read this tonight. Because our approach so far is WRONG!
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“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” – Psam 118
“Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed.” – Matthew 28
Joy is the core message of the Christian Scriptures. This is the New Day, one of rejoicing and one to live every day.
Do we know how to truly find joy, to rejoice? What was he saying when he wrote that they were fearful, yet overjoyed?
Do you recall when you may have experienced this combination of feelings in your life?
It is a strange and wonderful thing indeed, but a true response when you encounter this New Day!
Rejoice and be glad, and make this day a truly new one!
“Do this in memory of me.” – Luke 22:19
The Greek word translated as memory here is “anamnesis”- to call back into memory a vivid experience.
Each of us has different ways and levels of remembering or calling back the past into our present experience. I for one wish my memory was as vivid as my daughter’s. But it is isn’t. I wish that all of us could remember as vividly as the flashback vignettes we see so often in movies.
But this request, some say command, was given at the Lord’s supper, which Christians remember and “re-live” today on Holy Thursday. And it points to the memory of Logos (reason, logic and knowledge).
We are rediscovering the knowledge of universal things. We are bringing the past and the future together in our conscious communion in the present. The Eternal Now of being present in the center of creation and of our own history.
This is not a distant, faint memory, but a living and actively present remembering. In the present we become true community and only discover then our future together.
In the context of the quote above, the immediate future would be a call to complete sacrificial love.
How do we bring into vivid memory today our experience of sacrificial love?
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should’ve been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
A beloved comedian, actress, writer, singer, and producer, this lady knows what it feels like to be somebody.
Maybe she knows what it’s like to be many somebodies. And in being too many somebodies, maybe she’s telling us that you could lose touch with your true somebody.
She very well may just be using her own status as a beloved somebody to tell us that the meaning of being “somebody” is up to each of us to define. The title truly can mean so many different things.
There are countless somebodies throughout history that nobody has ever heard of. So what does it mean?
On second thought, maybe she was just being funny!! She is somebody that is pretty remarkable at that.
Words are art and are always open for interpretation. So what’s your interpretation of becoming somebody? That’s the only thing that matters.
Here’s a clip from one of my first television shows ever to watch, Sesame Street. Lily gives us a great example of how humor, even for the kiddos, can be silly, but have so much meaning behind it.