Rapture
The Rapture is that saving opportunity to respond with one’s entire being to God’s love and so become partners in the Divine Communion.
“See what love the Father lavishes on us by letting us be called God’s children … which is what we are.”
“When he appears we shall be like him … because we shall see Him as He really is.”
Emptied of self we accept and believe, finding the freedom to look death in the face … recognizing our need for change.
“God is our real mother, more tender, more loving and more understanding than any earthly mother. Our birth into eternal life through the birth canal of death must be seen just as our birth into this life.
Without a mother, the trauma would be too much.”
Ronald Rolheiser, Forgotten Among the Lilies
Emptied of self, we are embraced; welcomed into God’s presence … this is prayer.
