The Road to the Third Day

“It is why every single expression of faith is provisional—because life carries us always forward to a place where the faith we’d fought so hard to articulate to ourselves must now be reformulated, and because faith in God is, finally, faith in change.”― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

“We are destined to be fully redeemed, and unlonely, only when the kingdom about which Jesus preached comes in all its completeness. In the meantime, we must give up attempting to find complete fulfillment through partial and pseudosolutions. We must face up to our loneliness, accept it, stop running from it, stop letting it propel us into all kinds of dissipating activity, and stop seeing its resolution as lying exclusively in a journey outward. As hard as that is to do, we must, at some point, stop our frenzied activities and look inward for an answer. The journey toward solitude begins with this first step.”― Ronald Rolheiser, The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness

Palm Sunday.
The start of Holy Week.
The final leg of the journey to Easter.
The third day only comes after day one and two.
May the sacred ground of this week stop you in your tracks.
Bring you to your knees.
Beyond cynicism, anger, denial.
No religion required.
Just an open heart.
Courage to take the journey in.

“Faith is not the same thing as being able to imagine God’s existence or even of being able to feel God on an emotional level. The mind is mostly unequal to the task to the task of imagining God’s existence and the heart is often just as inept at giving us any feeling of it. But God doesn’t cease to exist for that reason, nor is faith dead just because the imagination and the heart have run dry. God exists, independent of our perceptions.”― Ronald Rolheiser, The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God