Reflection (The readings are below, for your reference)
I am reading Falling Upward by Richard Rohr and I find it very helpful. In it he talks about building an ego and then sacrificing it. You have to go down in order to go up. He refers to the many instances of that myth throughout all cultures: Persephone descending to the underworld before spring can be reborn; Sleeping Beauty slumbers for a hundred years before awakening to love’s kiss; Jacob wrestles with the angel before becoming Israel; and the death and resurrection of Jesus. That’s what I thought about when I read “you will have pain, but your pain will turn to joy.” In other words, we all suffer loss(es), which are reborn as joy. If you are confused, you are in good company!! Jesus repeats himself three times in this one passage!
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Acts 18:1-8
Psalm 98:1-4
John 16:16-20
‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.’ 17Then some of his disciples said to one another, ‘What does he mean by saying to us, “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me”; and “Because I am going to the Father”?’ 18They said, ‘What does he mean by this “a little while”? We do not know what he is talking about.’ 19Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, ‘Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me”? 20Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy.
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