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What are you going to be when you grow up? |
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When you ask a small child what they want to be when the grow up, the answers are often drawn from a pool of ten or so favourite traditional children’s career choices. |
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Oh you take the high road and
I’ll take the low road and you’ll be in Scotland before me, for me and my true
love will never meet again…
The high road or the low road,
the easy way or the hard,
We all make choices.
All our lives about which
direction we wish to travel,
Choices, directions, the easy
way, the hard way,
the way of forgetfulness, the way
of love.
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A group of women
go to a tomb, they go in the dark and they arrive in the light.
Very early, on the
first day of the week and the sun has just risen.
They go with love
and longing,
With precious
spices ready to anoint.
They seek the dead
among the dead.
And in between
their living selves and the body of the man they loved is a stone.
An enormous
boulder blocking the path.
Have you ever felt
this way?
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Bringing About Earth as it is in Heaven |
Today we have gathered together and trodden a path which calls us towards a re-imagining.
A re-imagining of the way the world is and the way it can be; a re-imagining of reality as we know it. It is a similar re-imagining which the poor and motley crowds who gathered around Jesus over 2000 years ago were being called into. |
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Not Our Judge, Not Our Jailer |
Altar, blood, high priest, lamb, offering, Passover, priest, sacrifice,
scapegoat, sin. In ancient times once a year a goat would be brought
into the centre of the town and upon its back the priest would,
symbolically, heap the sins of the community. The animal’s throat would
then be torn and it would be hounded out into the desert to die. With
this sacrifice the great God would be appeased and everyone was now out
of danger till next year. Poor Goat. Poor God.
What an astounding image of deity this theology presents us with.
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