conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

sunday morning...

This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.
- Madeleine L'Engle

Good morning. Our world is covered in snow again. We received about 6" last night. Right now the wind is blowing. Snow will drift. I know it makes for lousy travel, but it is beautiful to behold.

Church will likely be lightly attended this morning. And our event (Quest is coming! Quest is coming!) may suffer in the same way. I hope that I am wrong. I hope that by noon, the roads will be opened up and people will come to see Blue Nativity. Our church brunch follows the show. All are invited. So, come on up to Wilmette this morning. We'd love to see you.

Now I am going to make some coffee. The sermon is ready. The tangerines are ripe. The mandolin is tuned. I think I'm ready for church. We'll see how this plays out!

“Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.” - Rumi

I've been thinking about reason. Why would I spend so much time on that with which I am so unfamiliar? Well, so I could write that very sentence of course! No. I see competition everywhere I see it in my own attitudes and preaching. I see it in what I read. It is in contemporary. Reason or Something Else. Reason or Mystery. Reason or Obedience. Reason or Faith. Reason or Love. Reason is set apart. It is set in a competitive posture. I am beginning to see that this is a rhetorical mistake. Reason is part and parcel of human experience, as essential as mystery, faith, obedience, and Love. One cannot have any of these without the other.

Okay. That is my musing for the morning.

See ya.

Posted by tripp at December 16, 2007 06:45 AM