Then he led them [out] as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This one will be short, after yesterday\u2019s screed<\/a>. This mystery speaks to me about the loyalty we\u2019re expected to maintain to God even when He seems to have withdrawn into some other\u2013maybe higher, but definitely distant\u2013realm. This place, in between the Ascension and the descent of the Spirit, is where a lot of us live most of the time.<\/p>\n
Promise-making requires a stern continuity of personal identity, in both the lover and the beloved: To keep my promise, I have to live within the life chosen by yesterday\u2019s self, or the self of twenty years ago. Memory and longing try to keep us faithful to our distant beloved but in the end I think a lot of us fall back on a raw, evidence-free trust that the future won\u2019t be like the present. It won\u2019t always be like this; we\u2019ll be reunited<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a song about that. I go back and forth on how creepy it seems to me. I\u2019m always getting the shivers over perfectly gentle expressions of trust or piety\u2013here\u2019s one<\/a>\u2013and this song sometimes seems to hold as much threat as promise. \u201cWherever you go\u2026 there I\u2019ll be.\u201d<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIMtjxCbDMk&feature=kp<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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