Rebirthing: a bit of a mystery...

"So how do you go about rebirthing? Well, the thing about being born is that the baby doesn't actually have much say in the proceedings. There it is, all warm and wet and having a cosmic experience, when suddenly the balloon is punctured and the walls start closing in. I dare say if it were to be consulted, the baby would have been quite content to stay where it was. No such luck. It gets pushed out, squeezed through a tunnel clearly too small, and ejected into a bright place full of people waiting to hit it. Rebirthing is something similar. It's not so much something you do as something that's done to you. People who have passed through it can say this and that about it, but if they're honest, they end up having to admit that it's all a bit of a mystery."

MIKE RIDDELL

Godzone - A Guide to the Travels of the Soul Oxford, page 12: Lion 1992, 1997; Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2002 Click here to visit Mike Riddell's homepage.

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy saying.
[Titus 3:3-8, The Message]
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