Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
Taken from LWPT Meditations
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05 May 2013 LWPT Meditation
Acts 16:9-15
Psalm 67
Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5
John 5:1-9
If we read the context of the passage in Revelation in today’s lectionary, the picture that the writer gives us of the New Jerusalem/heaven/eternal life is complicated and disturbingly unfamiliar in some respects –gates made from a single pearl, streets of gold, foundations of precious stones (21:19-21). I once heard a sermon based on the speaker’s own experience – so he claimed – of spending half an hour in heaven, following a traffic accident. He too recalled pearly gates and golden streets and all the people he saw appeared to have been Botoxed to the gills. It sounded completely alien and made me feel depressed. “If that’s what it’ll be like, I’m not going”, I whispered to my husband. “Nor am I”, he whispered back. It does not seem likely that the description in Revelation is to be taken literally. Revelation is full of imagery, some of it very strange indeed. Amidst all the figurative language, though, are some wonderful promises that we can truly believe...
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