The challenge of letting go is often not easy, even though, in every area of our lives, we know it is necessary for new life. As an advert I saw in Brisbane this week puts it: ‘don’t be scared of change, be scared of not changing.’ Unless we change, we stop developing: whether that be physically, emotionally or spiritually. This most certainly does not mean that change itself is good. We have to pray and discern what is fruitful rather than foolish change. There are many things we will seek to conserve, for new life is born out of the old, if it is healthy evolution. Yet merely clinging to the life we have will also mean that life slips away from us. This is the heart of the Paschal, Easter, mystery we begin to draw close to again in our church year: the ultimate, everyday, mystery, that (as we have just sung) it is in giving of ourselves that we receive, in dying that we are born to God’s amazing life...