Cloud and Fire

I am also making my way through a Celtic mission book as I cycle throughout Ireland, and it is remarkable to note that Celtic Christian missionaries were sent out from here to the UK and further afield. To see that healthy mission was formed in this green land which is now largely secular, is also a sad thought.

I find myself reflecting on a concept that those early Irish missionaries had of finding their resurrection place. As they read the Bible they believed that when they died that they would sleep with Christ and that in the general resurrection they would rise to a new earth ready to work for Christ in this physical place of their resurrection.

Therefore it was important for them to find the right place in this life; their resurrection place. I haven’t found mine yet, haven’t found that ‘place’ of true resurrection. I think all followers of Jesus are called to find it, though perhaps it isn’t a physical place inasmuch as an inner place from which we find ourselves truly at home being and doing what God has created us to be and do.