成人快手

Good morning. Today, many Christians celebrate Ascension Thursday, when we recall that forty days after his resurrection from the dead, Jesus was taken up into heaven. According to one of the Bible accounts, just after he had gone up out of their sight, his disciples stand around staring up at the sky, almost as if they were frozen with indecision. 鈥淲hat comes next?鈥� seems to be the question they鈥檙e silently pondering as they gaze upwards.
That question, 鈥淲hat comes next?鈥� has been on the minds of many of us recently as well. For weeks we鈥檝e been talking about the exit-strategy from lockdown: what it will look like, how long it will take and what will become our new normal afterwards?聽
Nearly every aspect of our lives has changed 鈥攐ur relationships, our careers, our priorities鈥攁nd as we go back we have the opportunity to ask ourselves 鈥榳hat do I want to go back to?鈥� The question, then, doesn鈥檛 simply concern the practicalities of daily living. It鈥檚 an invitation to reflect on the type of life we want to lead and to address questions about the type of world we want to live in and our approach towards inequality, the environment and injustice.
Of course, those are big questions, but I think Ascension Thursday is a day for daring to ask the big questions and facing them straight on.
After he鈥檇 gone up into heaven, Jesus鈥� disciples could have so easily returned to their former ways of life, but they took a risk and embraced something new.聽
We鈥檙e facing something similar today as we ponder our own futures post-lockdown: like the disciples, we ask: what鈥檚 next?
Heavenly Father, you teach us to let go of all that holds us back so that we can receive from you new blessings. Gift us with the grace to dare to imagine how our lives might be and your power to make it a reality. You live and reign for ever and ever. Amen.