Paschally, in terms of your youth, this is your status: Good Friday has already happened, your youth has died. Resurrection too has happened; you have already received the life of a seventy-year-old, a new life, different from and richer than the life of a twenty-year-old. And now you have a choice: You can refuse to grieve and let go of your lost youth and, like Mary Magdala on Easter morning trying to cling to a Jesus she once knew, try to hold on to your youth. If you do that you will be blocking ascension and you will be an unhappy, fearful, and frustrated seventy-year-old because, like
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