just thinking
For the last Sunday of the Church Year, we have and hear ominous end-time hints that probably don’t touch most people. What I find is that an octogenarian hears such things more personally relevant than teens (who pay no attention whatsoever, don’t even hear it, minds are on other things entirely, namely the girl sitting two pews ahead BTDT) or twenty-somethings whose lives are just shifting into second gear.
What does Paul think, believe? With the Any Moment Second Coming Stay Awake Keep Watch experientially on pause, Paul had somewhat committed himself with his letter to the Thessalonians, so I reckon he’s stuck with it, developing, improving and clarifying himself, that Christ returning from death is only the beginning of what’s to come, that he’ll bring all the faithful dead with him and so forth and so on. Paul gives me second thought because he didn’t have a telescope is my shorthand as I contemplate his theology.
Yesterday’s football games came out, Blue as ruefully expected, though Michigan scored ten more points than the forecasts I'd read. I'd thought UF/FSU would be a tossup but it certainly wasn’t (next year in Jerusalem). The Alabama Game turned out to be the Auburn Game, which I did not expect at all but, as my friend Robert likes to say, “that’s football.” Anything can happen, does, and certainly did.
Breakfast. Lots of black coffee that Tass brought me. One long slice crisp bacon from Saturday broken in two to cover one slice lightly buttered extra thin bread, two very thick slices turkey breast from Thursday on the other slice lightly buttered extra thin bread. Bread lightly buttered to keep pork and fowl from falling out.
No Confirmation Class this Sunday morning of Thanksgiving Weekend. I have something to do in the church office between services, if I finish qyickly, will go hangout in the Library in case anyone comes in to talk, chat, visit.
Second Lesson below, scroll down, who will
1 Corinthians 15:20-28
In fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For "God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection," it is plain that this does not include the one who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.
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