Last week, we listened as Jesus moved from the social world to our internal lives.
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A big tough samurai once went to see a little monk. “Monk,” he said, in a voice accustomed to instant obedience, “teach me about heaven and hell!”
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“You are the salt of the earth.” “ You are the light of the world.”
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One of the great temptations as a Christian is to create Jesus in our own image.
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Today is Kickoff Sunday, 2020, a kickoff Sunday like no other.
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This is Labor Day weekend. If this were a normal Labor Day weekend, football fans would be revved up for college football and the NFL. Though football may be played (I will believe it when I see it!), the thought of football with no fans and no tailgating is almost as unimaginable as the thought of 100,000 people packed into a stadium and yelling at the top of their lungs during a global pandemic.
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So, pretty much every culture from ancient times has recognized that there is a really important transition that happens in a human being’s life when we move from childhood to adulthood. Usually, folks locate this time at age 12 or 13 or 14.
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Recently, we moved my daughter, Emma, into her new apartment in Evanston. In my mind, the biggest challenge of moving around the Chicagoland area is not moving boxes and mattresses and lamps. No, the biggest challenge is parking.
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So, how’s your global pandemic going? If you’re like me, there have been some surprisingly meaningful moments in the midst of the challenges.
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One of my favorite intellectual partners in my life is the writer, David Foster Wallace. Wallace wrote some amazing things in his brief life, a life that was shortened by depression. Among other things, he wrote perhaps the longest, most challenging novel that I’ve read, “Infinite Jest,” which also happens to be, in my opinion, incredibly prophetic. On the other end of the spectrum, he wrote a commencement address that was short and pithy and seems to function, for me, as a sort of mental defibrillator when it seems like I meet be on the brink of a cognitive flatline. His words wake me up.
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So, let’s pick up where we left off…We are all intensely aware these days of how little control we have over things and of how insecure life can feel. Life has been disrupted!
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The eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is an amazing portrait of a life of faith.
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