Film Friday In the film The Magic Faraway Tree, when the Thompson family relocates to the countryside, their three youngsters discover a magi tree in the woods. On climbing the tree they find all kinds of wonderful characters and lands. Lands of wonder and adventure, not least the land of sweets with fields of marshmallows and hundreds of edible flying saucers.
In Ecclesiasts 3 v 11 we are told that God has put eternity into our hearts. A sense of a world greater and better than this one. I think our longings for adventure and wonder, miracles and joy are sign of that.
After Easter Sunday the friends of Jesus find themselves in a new reality, a new land if you like, the land of resurrection.
Their lives are still difficult, and things will not be easy, but now they have the perception that God will always be with them. And the hope of a new eternity, a new land of peace and justice in the future. In the meantime they and we live in a land peppered with glimpses of resurrection. In his book Unseen Footprints Sheridan Voysey points out that there’s a verse in Psalm 77 v 19, describing God leading his people through the waters of the red sea, but they didn’t see his footprints. So it is with us, we now live in the land of resurrection, and we may not see its fullness and we can’t always easily see the footprints of God, but he is here to help us, always caring for us. The resurrected king.
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