The writer Annie Dillard once said that if we truly heard the radical character of the Easter story we should go to church wearing a crash helmet.
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It occurs to me that we always live in an in-between time — no longer the past and not yet the future. We live between past and future.
How do you most often use the word “hope” or hear the word being used?
In today’s reading, we have Jesus’ words preparing his disciples for the lonely time when he is no longer physically with them.