From the cross John records Jesus saying, “it is finished.” What is finished?Well, John went out of his way to make the point that Jesus saw himself remaking the world, bringing about a kind of new creation. And so as God said after creating the cosmos, “it is finished,” so Jesus echoes these words as the old way to things begins to meet its end. The creation gets a second chance and a whole new way of functioning-bringing the old in conversation with the new.
And so, what is finished, might not be the only question I have for Jesus. What is beginning? And what does it look like for tomorrow and the day after. The message of Jesus can not be articulated from the iPhone I am typing from, and I have the feeling that I have just glimpsed what it is to embody this message. But I know, after hearing from friends and watching them live, that it has something to do with honesty and loving from this place of exposure, the same way God came to us.
So tonight I am walking in the rain after a dinner with friends and thinking this rain is the healing kind. I threw my Chacos on and I can feel a cool touch from the wind. It’s after midnight and I should go to bed, and I will soon, but this moment is good. It is a moment that is rooted in the way things started out, humans feeling the dew from the garden of the earth. I sense space opening up this post Easter Monday morning, new space. Space for possibility and a filling-out of what was once an empty existence. Empty perhaps because we were trying to ‘make it’ or empty because we had ‘made it’ and were dehumanized in the process. Either way, I am being filled, with courage-maybe, or simply the awareness that Gods got us. And I’m hopeful for a newness to things that is connected to the ground, getting my feet dusty.
