Luke 24:40-43 NLT

As he spoke, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Still they stood there in disbelief, filled with joy and wonder. 

Then he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he ate it as they watched.

Luke 24:40-43 NLT

Jesus didn't just arrive in a body like ours, live in a body like ours, die in a body like ours, he came back in a body too. 

The Divine, the Eternal, fully embracing humanity.

The ordinary. 

"Do you have anything here to eat?"

And he carried his scars through death and into Life.

Scars that didn't stop him walking, or holding his food (or needing food). 

Resurrection.

Where Jesus scars are signs of Life, Renewal, Resurrection.

He is God with Us.

Hope is Here.

And it's OK not to "get" it all, understand it all:

"Still they stood there in disbelief, filled with joy and wonder."

But we do get to accept that our God so loved the world, so loved us, so loved me, that Jesus bore and took on and held all that separates us from God, and was brought through death and disconnection from God so that we can be accepted, belong, adopted, chosen.

We are Beloved.

Jesus scars show it. 

Resurrection means we get to live in the Light that the dawn of Easter Sunday gave us, the day the Story changed, when death was defeated, when Love won...

#lovewithoutmeasure #redemptivestrands #hopeishere