<p> A Meditation on Resurrection</p><p>Looking at the world, it would be easy Think of how body, mind, and spirit can to become depressed. appear to go to ruin. Pollution has wreaked havoc with Imagine someone you know being our environment. Hatred and disease restored by God. Picture that person have wrecked many being forgiven, lives. To believe in accepted, changed, re- resurrection is to believe created. Picture how that in the justice and the person would look creative power of God. It completely restored, is to believe that every heart and soul. Pray that person can be saved, the image of God may that no situation is so be fully restored in each desperate that it is person. beyond the grace of Now look inside God. yourself. What needs to Imagine Jesus lying be resurrected? Picture dead in the tomb as if God restoring that part of you were there. Now your life step by step. imagine you are What do you need to watching his do? What will you be like Resurrection. What when you are restored? happens as he is Pray: restored to life glorified? Creating God, you Look at something rebuild what is broken, ruined like an old restore what has fallen building or a garden. into disrepair. Take my Imagine it fully restored. Picture the life into your hands. Breathe your Holy stages in its restoration: what would be Spirit into me. Recreate me. Restore me done first, what next, and so on. to yourself. Make me new and keep me yours. Amen.</p><p>Used with permission / Copyright 1997, Liguori Publications / Liguori, MO 63057-9999</p>