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The Fledgling--Week of April 26, 2019
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From Mother Megan:
We're in the heady, post-Easter time when we get to read all the resurrection appearances, and a shockingly high number of them involve eating.
I cannot speak definitively to what the experience of rising from the dead entails, but whatever it was must make you hungry, because just about every time Jesus sees the disciples again, he demands food. Or makes them some food. Or eats their food, then disappears.
Scholars posit that part of this food fascination was to reinforce the Resurrection. It was a way of saying, "Jesus isn't a ghost or anything; look, he ate a whole fish!"
That may or may not be helpful. But, as seen in a different light, it's also a way of suggesting that the human body is precious to God--that it, too, is wrapped up in this redemption that Christ offers.
It's tempting to assume that the spiritual life is all about the soul. But post-resurrection, Jesus seems intent on still carting around his flesh, even when it has the marks of his trauma. All of which suggests that God considers our physicality to be a feature of being human, and not a bug. We are embodied creatures, with frail, mortal bodies, and God somehow promises resurrection and new life even to us. Not in spite of our mortality, but in the absolute midst of it. Our bodies are a gift from God, even with all the imperfections, quirks, and frustrations that sometimes accompany them.
Our bodies grow and strengthen; they age and fall apart--but it is in our flesh that God meets us, and it is here that God brings us to new life.
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Prayer for the week
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Readings for this Week
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