I am reading David Richo’s book, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships. In it he talks about how through transference we relive our earliest hurts in an unrelenting cycle and that by facing that pattern consciously we can break through and become our whole selves. Today’s first reading from Paul’s letter to the Hebrews resonates that for me. Through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ we discover the healing ability to find truth so that we need not offer ourselves again and again, but rather we enter into one single continuous arc of heavenly awareness and compassion.
What do you think?
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Hebrews 9
15 For this reason Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.* 24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; 26for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgement, 28so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Psalm 98
Mark 3:22-30
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