Although
more timely for Advent than Lent, one of my favourite movies, Love Actually, celebrates the reuniting
of loved ones in airports. This symbol of love transcends country, culture,
language and even time. Like most expats, I have lived and continue to live the
incomparable joy of an airport reunion. In contrast, I have also lived the
dreaded goodbyes. I don’t know that my heart ever stings as much as the moment
of separation from my husband, parents or siblings at the airport.
When I
now think of saying goodbye at the airport to my own loved ones, I can’t
imagine how hurt, overcome and saddened the Father was at the time of the fall
of man in the garden of Eden. His sons and daughters were separated from him,
in a far more drastic way than I am separated from my parents when I leave on
an airplane.
Thankfully,
this passage above (Colossians 1.18-23) reminds us how Christ, through his
death and resurrection has been able to reunite us with the Father. Paul
emphasizes this in verse 20 by saying that Christ was able to “reconcile to himself all things,
whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through
his blood, shed on the cross. In this season of Lent, I pray that we
remember our own “airport reunions” with loved ones and apply these joyous
occasions to the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. I pray that this story
becomes more real to us as we remember that Christ, through his sacrifice on
the cross, allows us to have the most beautiful reunion with our Heavenly
Father.
Et c’est par lui qu’il a voulu réconcilier avec lui-même l’univers
tout entire; ce qui est sur la terre et ce qui est au ciel, en instaurant la
paix par le sang que son Fils a verse sur la croix
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