Sunday, March 17, 2013

 

Sunday Reflection: Into the City



My dad taught me some important things, many (most, even) of them when he was not talking to me. For example, I remember him once railing at another artist who was doing most of his work out of a safe, nondescript suburban office park: "There's nothing there to challenge you! There's just driveways!"

He was right, I think-- cities (and in a different way, the wild) challenge us to be better. My own best ideas and writing comes from those times that I hole up in New York, for example. Cities mash us together, and we are all different; challenge is inherent in the process. I remember Eudora Welty once saying of New York something to the effect of "Everything there is difficult, but there are the brilliant moments."

So, is it a surprise that for that chaotic last week Jesus goes to the city? It fits, doesn't it-- the tumult, the crowds, the violence in the Temple, the crowds always present. That is the only place that so much could have happened, so fast and so true.

Comments:
Thank you for sharing your sermon today. And thank you for your “Into the City” reflection for it is so true. Cities are chaotic and loud and the bigger they are the more chaotic and louder, but those moments of quiet, whether on a suddenly empty subway platform or a secluded bench in the park, across the threshold of a tiny city apartment or a dusty old shop, those moments of quiet come into focus with razor sharp clarity. It is grounding and uplifting. It is Truth, humbling and magical.
 
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