God as Grave Robber

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

My citizenship is not limited to any nation.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You’re a grave robber; you empty tombs. You cannot be said to honor places of the dead, for you overcome death with life. You mark graves with flowers, then you take from them everything of value. Perhaps it is better to say that you take what is valuable from the dead before death realizes it has an empty victory. You frustrate death, which ends one kind of life but cannot compete with you when it comes to eternal life. From the nothingness of death into the fullness of life is your obsession, what you do just because you’re you. I salute you, you who rob from death and give to life.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“I take it back.”

[What He did not say on innumerable occasions. After healings, for instance, or in disputes with authorities, or the sermon on the mount…]

D. Blog: Sowing Seeds

I can certainly identify with the sower in Jesus’ parable. It seems I toss seeds about me wherever I go, whenever I write, whenever I share a photograph or an idea. A few take seeds root and flourish. Most do not. But there came to me a new insight (a seed from elsewhere). Neither the sower nor I concern ourselves with a harvest. The task is to sow. We trust the Holy One will tend to the growth and the harvest. And that’s great; it relieves a burden from our shoulders. The growth and harvest are God’s responsibility. The sowing is good enough for me.