Is Your Head In The Clouds?
"They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.'" - Acts 1:10-11 The above scripture depicting Jesus' departure from his disciples (what Christians commonly refer to as "The Ascension") appeared in my daily readings today, and I found myself wondering the same thing I've always wondered when I read it: "What the heck is going on here?" Is the writer of Acts really suggesting that Jesus drifted away like a balloon into the sky? Or was Jesus' transition from our reality to God's reality something so beyond the comprehension of those who witnessed it, that they could only describe it in ways they could understand? And then it hit me. ...