In this week following Easter I am forced to remember that real life is seen in what you are willing to make sacrifices for. One book that I am currently reading (and I am reading about 10 others) is called “Tuesdays with Morrie.” It is about a sports reporter for the Detroit Free Press who visits his old professor, named Morrie, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Morrie speaks about life. He says: “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” (Tuesdays with Morrie; page 43)
Living a life that is sacrificial, that gives meaning for those of us who follow Jesus, means that we will live a life of woundedness. We follow the wounded Healer. How much of our lives is lived trying to avoid being wounded? Yet, Jesus knows that what will bring divine meaning into our lives is discovering His life in the midst of our wounds.
The life of Jesus arises within us when the wounding humbles us. For God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. His life grows when we seek His comfort. His life increases as we are empowered in Him through our weaknesses. Our woundedness scours away the rust of a dreary, dull and lackluster spiritual life. We discover that life, real life, true life, God’s life has taken on a rich, full meaning within us.
Are you really living? Are you really dying?
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