Satan - the sifter !

A few wods from Walter Wink: "Perhaps in the final analysis Satan is nor even a "personality" but a function in the divine process, a continuum..... interesting stuff and helpful. In Unmasking the powers he writes convincingly about our choices being what makes Satan the dinine agent for good, or Evil.

Ascension Day

Ascension Day and Jesus ascends to heaven from earth. A day to reflect on what it all might mean. Some thoughts:

Walter Wink suggests that the heaven of popular culture (when it is interested in it - being death denying it isn't that much interested) is regarded as otherworldly, transcendent. It is a place which the dead go to if they are good. He suggests however that we conceive of it as aplace of "withinness" - the metaphorical place where the spirituality of everything is located. Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim but also Demons.

He goes on to say that because Heaven is where God resides it is a place of possibilities. Hope.