"We know that all our mothers' bearing is [bearing of] us to pain and to dying: and what is this but that our Very Mother, Jesus, He—All-Love—beareth us to joy and to endless living?—blessed may He be!"
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 60)
Though our earthly mothers bear or birth us into a world of pain and sorrow and death, our dear Mother Christ bears or births us into a whole new world of endless life and joy. We are born anew through Christ's resurrection, brought into the realm of Christ's resurrection life, the life of the heavenly realms. We are raised up with Christ to the heavens and are hid and oned with His resurrected and reigning life. This life has already prevailed over every pain, sickness, sorrow and death of the earthly life. This life, Christ's own resurrection life, never has any bitterness, fear, anxiety or lack in it. Born from above in Christ, we are a new creation, newborns in a whole new world, and we are pure, perfect, sinless, beautiful and sweet. We are in eternal life, God's own life, and we can never go out of it, for how could we ever go backwards and be unborn? Birth is permanent! We are forever in life, in Christ's life, in resurrection life! It is the most beautiful, fulfilling, happy, peaceful life we could imagine. And it is a life of love, full of the tenderness and warmth of Christ, a life of being permanently embraced by the One who loves us most, safe from any harm alive forevermore, enjoying the love of the Trinity family continually!
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
1 Peter 1:3 (NIV)
Thank You for bringing me into Your endless life through Your resurrection!