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Luke
23:42-43
Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come
into your kingdom.’ He replied, ‘Truly I tell
you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’
With me
The most sublime desire
of our human hearts finds satisfaction here: You will be with me.
This is what we most
need, to be with the Love who seeks always to be with us—and is, right there on
the cross.
The Loving Mystery
seeks us where we feel most lost and alone, most forgotten and cast off, when
our hearts have no hope and surrender to sadness and anger.
Even there, especially
there, God is present, sharing our pain and full of promise. Today, you will be
with me in paradise.
Isn’t this what paradise
is? It is to be with this great love, to know great love embracing all that you
are, pain and joy, sorrow and hope. It is to be aware of this great love deep
within, bubbling with hope that you are not and never will be lost.
And you won’t. For everything
that is and everything you are is encompassed in this great love from whom we
are never separate and with whom we will always be.
God’s nature is most
clearly known in the cross where great love hears our cries, shares our sorrows and bears us into the paradise of the divine,
loving presence. Today and forever.
Pr. David L. Miller
