not dead yet
How do you tend to what’s alive in and around you? How might you take action on behalf of those who are still alive as a way to grieve those we’ve lost?
Mark 12:27
God is the God of the living, not of the dead.
I used to be really worried about the afterlife.
Folks in Jesus’ day were really worried about the afterlife too. They came to him with very specific questions about who was married to whom in death if a widow remarried.
He chided them for their hypothesizing and creating scenarios in their imaginations of things that weren’t all that meaningful for the right here and the right now.
How often do we find ourselves caught up in worries about what comes next, while abdicating our responsibilities for what’s happening right in front of us?
Given the current state of the world, I think about the ways in which speculation about apocalypse has fueled global conflict. What would happen if we instead set our minds and actions on following the way of Jesus right here and right now?
How do you tend to what’s alive in and around you? How might you take action on behalf of those who are still alive as a way to grieve those we’ve lost?
—Candace Woods