Pajama Sunday 2017

Catholic spiritual direction today focuses on the Lord will not delay, which two thousand years on seems ludicrously pious and innocent until one minds that two thousand years is nothing in universal terms, and also sees that the meditator is thinking of salvation into God’s Realm here and now in this life, lifting away cares for each individual, instead of a general eschaton that, for our solar system alone, is five billion years in some future unless we mess it up sooner, which apocalyptic path humanity clearly is on; and, for the universe, spinning, expanding slowly to a halt, all lights wink out, chill and freeze to absolute zero at which there is nothing, not even space, one to a hundred trillion earth years hence, our tiny sun and planets long forgotten wherever awareness still exists.

More likely, what- or whoever speaks to ignite Big Bangs will long since have shifted attention to more promising experiments than earthly humanity, if not already, μη γενοιτο. 

Somewhere in South American jungles or deepest Africa are humans blessed enough to be oblivious to the rest of us and our ways of self, our blindness and self-absorption; who do not worry about a Second Coming. But those of us in our mainstream, watching and waiting, may find assurance in this morning’s scripture:

Isaiah 40:1-11

Comfort, O comfort my people,

says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and cry to her

that she has served her term,

that her penalty is paid,

that she has received from the Lord's hand

double for all her sins.

A voice cries out:

“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,

make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill be made low;

the uneven ground shall become level,

and the rough places a plain.

Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all people shall see it together,

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

IDK, I don’t know, I don’t know anything. I think and am skeptical but know nothing.

DThos+

Pic: 2017 Christmas parade of boats 20171209184