Sunday, May 29, 2005
Daily Office, Year One, Proper 4, Sunday
(I foolishly realized that I'd been reading the Year Two side of the Daily Office, so I've started this week on Year One).
Today's Readings:
I think that there is a connection between the contents of the little scroll in the reading from Revelation that tastes good but leaves a bitter stomach and the law that God commands the Hebrews no keep as they prepare to enter the promised land. Is the honey promised to them destined to taste good but eventually hurt them or leave them discomforted? Could it be that God cannot provide everything a single person needs? If we are co-creators with God, then we need each other as well as we need God. Ultimely all gifts are from God, but we need other human beings to bring those gifts into our lives. Christ said "man cannot live on bread alone", but maybe the converse is true: Man cannot live without bread; without Earthy stuff, without each other. This seems like a dangerous thought, but I don't think it needs to be taken as a threat to God, the idea of God, or the role God plays in our lives. After all, God said that it is not good for Man to live alone. Generalizing, each person needs other people. God was aware of this at the beginning, or quickly learned it. People need people. ¶ 4:48 PM
Today's Readings:
- Deut. 11:1-12
- Rev. 10:1-11
- Matt 13:44-58
I think that there is a connection between the contents of the little scroll in the reading from Revelation that tastes good but leaves a bitter stomach and the law that God commands the Hebrews no keep as they prepare to enter the promised land. Is the honey promised to them destined to taste good but eventually hurt them or leave them discomforted? Could it be that God cannot provide everything a single person needs? If we are co-creators with God, then we need each other as well as we need God. Ultimely all gifts are from God, but we need other human beings to bring those gifts into our lives. Christ said "man cannot live on bread alone", but maybe the converse is true: Man cannot live without bread; without Earthy stuff, without each other. This seems like a dangerous thought, but I don't think it needs to be taken as a threat to God, the idea of God, or the role God plays in our lives. After all, God said that it is not good for Man to live alone. Generalizing, each person needs other people. God was aware of this at the beginning, or quickly learned it. People need people. ¶ 4:48 PM
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That's the traditional way of looking at it, but marriage is a human construct. My wife and I were taught during our pre-marital counseling that there is no marriage in heaven. Paul teaches us that in heaven there is neither Greek nor Jew, neither Slave nor Free. Perhaps there is something to these communities of people who share their lives together. Maybe they have found a way to live in the Kingdom without a Christian framework of words and ideas.
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