Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.

Joel 2.13

In the strange and mysterious ways of God, it is precisely in coming back out of the glare of the sun, into the rest of Jesus, the son, that our lives are raised up. It is precisely in returning to ourselves as created selves, dusty selves, that we are brought into the full stature of the kingdom.