She writes,
A corpse does not come to life here and wait again to die. A body does not rise to bleed again.
She goes on to recount that Jesus "appeared" to the disciples. He did not walk to them, go through doorways, or otherwise travel with them or to them.
He simply 'appeared in the midst of their lives, while they were doing mundane things, without warning but vividly, the same but different.
I believe this distinction is important, and even more important as we find ourselves on the Advent of Christmas, when Jesus' birth is celebrated and honored.
Just as a corpse does not come back to life to bleed, Jesus was not born to die. Jesus was born, and through him, God presented a way of life that leads to hope, to peace, to joy, and to love. Just as the Resurrection of Jesus was not about reviving an old life, his birth was about a new way of life that is born within us every time we step further into our faith lives, further into our acknowledgement and experience of our Divine Creator.
The life of Christ is about hope in the midst of despair and suffering, new life in the midst of death, and re-creation in the midst of devastation. May you experience the revitalizing presence of God as the season of Advent very suddenly shifts into the season of the Christ-mass.