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A book to be savoured, each page slowly chewed over.

'Christ's resurrection is our forerunner. We are a new creation and our bodies are new gardens, new Ways to walk with God. Faithfulness is about going deeper into our own bodies: digging deep. To honor our surviving bodies is to honor and reveal the risen Christ who wells within us like a dayspring.'

'Almost dying can often make us become fully alive. The ground beneath our feet shifts: what we thought we needed to get by each day, and what we learn is essential to survival, changes our landscape. Our wounds are still raw, our pain has not necessarily lessened, but the whole of us is beginning to transform and grow within. We grow because we died: illness enlivens us.'

'We are awake, alive; we have risen, and our ultimate life's task is to rejoice with God who is the beginning and end of all life. Each new day is an invitation to be charged with resurrection light.'

'We can mourn our dying bodies in life and so, with thanksgiving, commend ourselves to God, just as we do a dead body at a funeral. The Church's liturgies teach us to see our days in this way, though for many of us today it may appear macabre. It is good to prepare to Rest In Peace when the sun has set.'

'Our days can be seen as a microcosm of our lives. We see the close of each day of our lives as a death and commendation to God in the hope and expectation of a new day—a resurrection and eternity shared with God.'