This line on the floor is a hinge, a boundary, a gateway, a Prime Meridian. It’s the one that Peter straddled in the attic in Joppa. On one side is Tabitha’s bed, Gazelle’s bed, the place of death. And on the other is the land of the living. On one side is the graveyard of dreams. On the other the maternity ward of hope. On one the law of cold hard justice – the salary of sin is death. On the other is the law of grace – the free gift of peace with God, with people, with yourself, and with all creation. Peter straddled it because that’s what we followers of Jesus do. We grasp the hand of God, and resurrection passes through our bodies, across that line to touch the people and situations in the place of death.