Nothing Has Changed... Everything Has Changed

          This year, time is especially fleeting as Holy Week approaches. So I’ll revisit a piece I have shared before:

          Amos Wilder tells in Christianity and Crisis (Dec. 11, 1967) of a student who burst into the study of an old rabbi with the news, “The Messiah has come!” The rabbi, looking out the window at the same scene he had always know, concluded, “Nothing has changed… as of old a time to weep and a time to laugh.” “Nevertheless,” signs Wilder, ‘the Kingdom has come”.

Behind the scenes, a clandestine irruption;
A fission in the world’s grain,
A benign conflagration…

Nothing has changed? But listen:
Tellurian tremors,
Convulsions at the earth’s core,
The silent collapse of parapets.
Moorings have parted
And we are carried away into new latitudes.

The Kingdom cometh not with observation,
But it has overtaken us…
Therefore this dancing through iron doors,
This singing our way through blind walls…
Therefore these hilarities, against all reason,
And charities welling up for no cause

(Copyright © 1967 by Christianity and Crisis, Inc.)

          May our own Easters have a share of dancing, singing, hilarities and charities -

          Peace,

Rod