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As deeply as he descended among the dead, plumbing Hell and Hades, the limits of human horror too easily imagined by the earthbound; so far he invites us to soar beyond our petty promises of punishment and death, to life beyond the burden that worms its way into our hope and churns it into fear; to lift our spirits out of their grave contemplation and, with the childlike joy of a fledgling discovering flight, to catch, as it rises, a lightening heart in the mouth and sing.
Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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