All Saints: Lazarus Unbound

We have a powerful story, this Sunday, of a human-being raised to life. At some point in our journey those of us who follow Jesus have, like Lazarus, been called out of a tomb. In one way and another life has been given fresh to us as only God can give it.

But emerging from the tomb, like Lazarus, we need a whole 'nother kind of help. Like him, we need to be unwrapped. Yards and yards of unwrapping. This is why they pay us Christians the big bucks---it's for the after-care, the miles and miles of unwinding.

Thank God for that burst of life that bears us. Thank God for the friends' hands that spool our bandages one turn, two turns, three turns....

All the saints raised up in this life. All those hands removing what keeps us each from light and life, breath and sight.