Journalling.- Death and Resurrection

Having been rather a hectic week I have only posted once. I have tried to take some time out amongst all the chaos to try and return to some journalling. On reading some of what I wrote last year I noticed that some of the themes come up time and time again. The Christian life is I suppose one of moving forwards and backwards. It is hard to measure what one would term as progress in faith and sometimes it can feel not only that we are getting nowhere but that we are falling backwards at a rate of knots. But in the good times I always seem to come to the conclusion that God is faithful to us even when we are not so good back to him. In Lent I am reflecting on this in my thoughts of death and resurrection using Lectio Divino on some of the Passion narratives. Sometimes these give me feelings of hope, sometimes not. Whatever it is challenge to us all to understand that cycle of death and resurrection not least because it shows us the fact that when we are reconcilled to loss and pain in our own lives we can experience growth in healing and wholeness and experience that resurrection life for ourselves.