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the story is about Jesus.

He is healing people.

He is taking time healing people one at a time.

He gets people back to life.

this is tricky!

Hopefully, this isn't going to be a second post on the same topic. I did a blog last night, punched the button, and voila! Into the black hole of cyberspace. So, I guess I'll try again.

I was asked to go to Samoa to conduct trauma counselling after the tsunami. It was an interesting experience to say the least. Some of the people I counselled had lost family members and homes and friends. The loss wasn't confined to Samoans, it embraced New Zealanders, Brits, Aussies, and others.

As I worked with the people, I heard lots of speculations.

One of the things I'm doing with Lent is working through the poems of Rumi. Less 'work' than ongoing play (Rumi has fun (but a commitment nonetheless. Last night I came across these lines from Coleman Barks, the translator. A good time to find them as Lent wears its way out down toward the home-stretch into Easter, and the various disciplines open up the inevitable doubts and re-evaluations :
"On Secrecy:

Sarah? We miss you. Can you email me an address? I have a book for you, in return for all the ones I stole. Love to you, E xx