John 11:32-44
I really enjoy how the lectionary can be laser focused sometimes. This week's message could not have been clearer to me. Adding to our different passages the events surrounding this week and we can begin to see how God works in our lives.
This past week there have been disasters, both natural and personal, all around us. Sure, we're focused on the ones closer to home, but a glance at what's happening around the world will show that others go through life-changing events all the time. What I find amazing is that no matter how bad these events affect lives, somehow, for some reason people never give up. Never.
I can't tell you why. That might be a question better answered by a sociologist or anthropologist, all I know is people never give up. Sure, they stop for a while and sure the recovery from certain events take longer to recover from. Yet, as time goes forward so does the healing.
We heal in different ways, but I can say with certainty we never heal alone. When our lives seem at their lowest, when it feels like the pain is too much to bear we somehow take a look around us and realize that we are not alone. Sitting beside us is a close friend or family member who is sharing in the pain with us, someone who is crying with us.
It's at that moment we realize, to offer a paraphrase from today's passage, that someone loves us. It's with this love our soul begins to repair and we start to live again.
Maybe that's why we never give up.
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