Our reading from the Narrative Lectionary this week is 1 Corinthians 15:51-57. In these verses, Paul reveals a mystery, that in the end some will be transformed, given a new body, instead of facing death. In other words death is not one of life's two certain terms. It seems taxes may be the only guarantee. "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes ." - Benjamin Franklin. Ok, all jokes aside, these verses are difficult to read. Paul looks forward to a time when death will have no victory, it will have lost its sting. But today, we are in the middle of a pandemic, surrounded by death. Many are scared for their lives, or their loved ones, and too many have already been lost. Death does not seem to have lost its sting at all, it feels as if it is closing in. When I worked in wilderness therapy I remember holding a child who was desperately trying to kill himself. We cried together as he struggled to end it, and I struggled
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