Leaderly Calculation and Mother Love

Leaderly Calculation and Mother Love
2 Samuel 19: 41- 21: 22

We care about what happens to the bodies of our loved ones. My wife and I long ago agreed that we would be cremated and then have our ashes scattered in the valley where we had spent the first night of our honeymoon. Now that she has died, it will be a place with which I especially associate her and a place I shall visit and where I shall think of her. I’m glad to know when I die that my sons will scatter my ashes there so that I shall join her. Admittedly, during the months after she died I sometimes worried about having her burnt up like that, even though I also knew that cremation only hastens the process of dissolution that also happens when we bury someone. Further, I don’t know how to fit together the dissolution of her body and the scattering of her ashes with the fact that in some other sense, as a person she is not in that valley but is asleep until resurrection day, when God will recreate us. Nor do I know how God will bring about that resurrection. I do know that there will need to be some relationship between the bodies we have had and the resurrection bodies we will acquire (otherwise they will not be our bodies). What happens to our bodies therefore does matter...