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Alpha and OmegaFriday, December 31, 2004
John 1:1,14 ... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Our frail selves don't last much longer. Walking down a hospital hallway yesterday I looked up at walls of famous men, portraits of doctors and nurses and philanthropists. What great people they were in their day! All of them dead. Bodies long forgotten, buried in the ground. And then Jesus ... "was with God in the beginning." Before the creation of time and during all its ticking down, He was, or as he said about himself, "I am." This particular shape of flesh, this Jesus-man, body and all, might have made his dwelling among us, and had a family tree. He was born, and he died. But his body did not decay. And when I pray to him, when I worship him, when I call him God I recognize a being that stands outside of time, outside of all that I have known or will ever know. What begins as a philosophical struggle (does anything exist outside of what can be known?) emerges into a relationship between parent and child, between lover and loved, between Jesus and me. My only experience of forever comes when Jesus touches my hand, draws me to him, and holds me close. To be loved and embraced by the Eternal One gives me confidence and grace to live well in the brief moments of this life, looking forward to forever with Him in the next. Jesus, you walk with me step by step, day by day. Always I thank you.
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Tonight Father Time will take a walk through Times Square. 2004 will bow out, bent with age, breathing badly, barely able to stand. 2005 will strut to centerstage, pink skinned, smiling big, ready to take on everything.