For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
–Colossians 3:3 (NIV)

She is dead 
but not lost. 
She is 
hidden with Christ in God–
consummated  
whole 
one 
decomposing and becoming 
soil. 
The grain of wheat fell to the earth and died. 

In the tomb of the earth, 
she is free  
of all that held her back 
of all that was not her. 

She is not lost. 
She is found 
hidden 
ready to rise. 

We’re on this earth to learn to love. That love [is] in God, in death, so the dead aren’t dead. They’re not annihilated; they’re consummated. And they don’t go anywhere, because in God, we live and move and have our being.
—James Finley, Turing to the Mystics, Introductions for the Practice

Credits and References:
“Composting” by  Jason Baker. Used with permission.
Hidden with Christ in God by Esther Hizsa, 2021. 
John 12:24
Acts 17:28
“Soil” by Tina Reynolds. Used with permission.

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