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MONDAY, August 30
John 8:21-32. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
The truth has not always made me free. The truth of learning that a loved one has been terribly injured or has contracted an incurable disease, or that one has lost his or her job hurts me as I grieve the capriciousness of life.
Things break. People die. As Leonard Cohen sings about suffering, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” The truth cracks us.
But there is a larger truth waiting behind the curtain of human drama, and that is the resurrection. Yes, we all die. Even the Son of God was lifted up on the cross and died. But that cross is also where God gathers in every truth and every misery of our lives and administers a higher truth: resurrection. We are born again and set free.
Give thanks today for the things that are cracked and broken in your life. Those are the places where resurrection and new life will occur. (2006)
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