Whose wife will she be?

When we have finished living,

after we die,

we will continue to exist; in some form.

So Jesus is recorded as saying

as he responds to the improbable scenario

put to him by a group Sadducees

endeavouring to ridicule

notions of resurrection.

This state of eternal existence will be quite unlike

that which we have previously known,

here among earth’s red dust;

he tells them.

Don’t expect family reunions,

welcoming friends

or the lovers embraces

so favoured by our imaginative reassurances

in times of grief.

And there will be no opportunity

to complete or to add

to the life that has been concluded.

The goodwill we have sown,

the love we offered,

the peace we made,

the grace by which we lived

and the hope, joy and laughter

we spoke, danced and sang;

these alone will stand.

Gentle, sometimes unnoticed,

they witnesses to the reality

of our faith and worship.

 

It is enough.

Would it be so terrible

if the Sadducees were right?

© Ken Rookes 2014

It is enough.

Would it be so terrible

if the Sadducees were right?

© Ken Rookes 2014