The nature of and the problem with time is that it passes, carries us without hurrying and without pause away from each thing that happens to us, even the great joys, even the utter desolations, even the miracles, even the moments in which we are touched by the very finger of God.
Tag: jesus
sermon: “a vessel to hold”
The map is not the territory, but we humans are very small in the scheme of things and we need something to hold us and the immensity of our experiences in order to get through them, a light to see by, a sextant for the spangled heavens by night and a sketch of a coastline by day.
the meek shall inherit the land
Christ was born a tiny crying needing thing and people did for him what he could not and he did nothing for himself; and then, dying and rising, he did for all of humankind what we could not.