Reply To: Turning to Christ

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Reply To: Turning to Christ

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July 5, 2018 at 9:01 am #6828

Rae

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Thank you for the inspirational posts on this tender passage. Mary stooped to look into the tomb for material evidence, a reminder of how often we look at matter to see how it is responding to prayer or treatment. In her darkest hour when it appears that she had been denied the blessing to see Christ one last time, to prepare his body for burial, her grief is inconsolable.

S&H 574-575: “The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares. The thought gently whispers: “Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb’s wife, — Love wedded to its own spiritual idea. Then cometh the marriage feast, for this revelation will destroy forever the physical plagues imposed by material sense.”

When Mary rises and turns herself around, it’s hard to imagine her exhilaration when she hears her beloved Master call her by name once more! “Mary”