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Brad Sullivan 7 Easter, Year A May 28, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 17:1-11 Love Is Gritty, Love Is Hard, Love Is an Empty Tomb I had a conversation with a nine year old last week about this Sunday’s gospel passage. I read it to him and then asked him what he thought. He said that it sounded like Jesus and the Father saying, “If we get to be in heaven for ever, why don’t the people on earth get to?” Meaning, “why shouldn’t the people on earth get to be with us in heaven forever as well?”, and of course, we do. That was Jesus’ life’s work and his prayer for his disciples which we heard today, that they would be one and he and the Father are one. The Father, and the Son, and the (not mentioned in this passage) Holy Spirit want us to be one with them and each other just as they are one. There’s nothing better in the world, nothing better in all of the universes than the unity of Jesus and th