Sun 13 B (1.07.2012) "talitha kum"

If there is death around the corner - Christian people are used to pray...

the see God as Master of Life + Death.

Today we hear (in the book of wisdom 1.13-15; 2.23+24) something else -

for us strange: "Death was not God's doing"

and surprisingly: "he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living".

It's all the contrary: "to exist - for this he created all".

Such a wisdom is demonstrated by JvN in Mk 5.21-24; 33-34

He told the girl "talitha kum" = get up!

Dying is not the way God likes. Therefore we have decided:

Our God is God of Life!

But sure: if you have a narrow view, 

if you see life only as a biological matter - nothing else -

only body no spirit - then Life is in your view a delusion.

It's good to broaden our view, to discover there is more

than only what we see...

Life is an incredible mystery - 

and as JvN was forced to die, God told him as ever:

that's not the way - pls: "talitha kum".