We have all been trained, maybe not on purpose, it just happens, but we’ve all picked up an image of God that isn’t entirely correct. In fact, it might even be all wrong. It’s not so much our idea of what God looks like that’s wrong, but about where God is. The problem is that we hear people talk all the time about God “up there.” You know, “the big guy up there” and all that. Maybe it happens because we’ve all seen pictures of an ancient God the Father seated in a chair in the clouds, maybe it’s the paintings in the Sistine Chapel of God literally on the…
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Jesus’s ascension is a very hard scene for us to picture. It’s a moment of spectacular special effects, maybe, or a religious vision that most of us have never experienced anything like. But however it happened and however you picture it, this ascension is something Jesus told the disciples would happen, that after his resurrection his physical presence would only be with them for a while, and then their world would be turned upside down yet again. It must have been hard for them. On that first Easter they all found it hard to believe the story of the women, they all found it hard to accept that he was…