FEAST OF THE ASCENSION
‘Now as He blessed them He withdrew from them
and was carried up to heaven’
As Jesus ascended into heaven He blessed His
friends and then they let Him go. Life is like that.
As we move from one stage to the next we must
bless what has been and let it go in order to embrace
fruitfully what has yet to be. Consequently, we
move from childhood to the middle years to old
age; from home to school to the world of work to
retirement. While each stage brings its joys and
successes, it also brings its’ sorrows and failures. We
must avoid the temptation to ‘nurse’ the hurts and
wounds of the past. We are products of the past,
but we don’t need to be prisoners of it. If we want
to fly, we have to give-up what weighs us down.
We would do well to be guided rather, by the spirit
of the old adage: ‘forget what hurt you but never
forget what it taught you’. Holding-on is believing
that there is only a past; letting-go is knowing that
there is a future and that is true freedom. The
friends of Jesus would come to understand.
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