People stood up during worship on Sunday. This is a big deal. A movement away from legalistic ritual death and toward freedom and life. Led by one old woman and a 30-something young family. May have partially been confusion about what the last song was, but I'll take it!
My deepest desire is to have a husband and babies. I find myself awed by the simplest love. I'm getting better at being content, but it is so hard to trust. We are far too accustomed to being betrayed. (Pv3:5)
Harry Potter showed me the gospel today. Remember the scene in Sorcerer's Stone when Harry first sees Voldemort in the forest feeding on a unicorn? Firenze saves him and says to him, "it is a terrible crime to slay a unicorn. Drinking the blood will keep you alive even if.you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price - for you have slain something so pure that from the moment the blood touches your lips you will have a half-life, a cursed life." And then Harry asks, but who would do such a thing?" The answer in real life, of course, is all of us. All of us have been a part of the slaying of something so innocent and pure, for God is that innocent and pure. And any little sin is a perversion of that purity.
Have you ever wondered why death hurts so much? I'm starting to think that its because its unnatural. Seems ridiculous, right? But sickness and death surround us. Touch all of us. We have to accept it because it's inevitable. And we do need to know how to suffer well, but what if it wasn't meant to be this way. What if death is the most unnatural thing in the world? What if we know that deep down, or knew it once upon a time? What if the reason immortality appeals so much in the form of elves and vampires not just because we are greedy, but because we know that it was always supposed to be that way? What if our attraction to Dracula, Lestat, and Edward Cullen is a fallen perversion of a desire to return home? What if elves are actually more natural than we are?
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