This past Sunday, we reflected upon the oxymoronic juxtaposition of these two words: practice is what we do, and resurrection is what God does. As those who inhabit a culture of death, we lack the ingenuity or the power to overcome death's hold on us; we can only move to true life through embracing the power of God's Spirit in us. This requires a yielding to the Spirit of the resurrected Jesus (who has already united us to himself) which frees us, and teaches us, to get in on God's reconciling activity in the world. Eugene Peterson says it this way: The practice of resurrection is not an attack on the world of death; it is a non-violent embrace of life in the country of death. It is an open invitation to live eternity in time. GS