Today marks the Ascension, the 40th day after the resurrection of Christ. N.T. Wright, in his new book Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, reminds us that “to embrace the Ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image-bearing creatures, but creatures nonetheless.”
(HT: RZIM)