Thursday, February 9, 2017

AT LAST!!!


Thursday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
Genesis 2:18-25 

Yesterday we heard in Genesis 2 about life being breathed into Adam and then the gift of the garden, a garden of plenty.  “Just not that ONE tree!”

God warns. 

You are ‘the start’ of something great. 
My most perfect creative idea.
But you aren’t done…and you aren’t me. 
Remember that.

Today, what God started he brings to completion.  
When I read this text, 
I like to read it real slow
…I mean slo-mo.

Adam is, in effect, a proto-human. 
Think about it. 
Can there be a human race of one? 
This is a narrative. 
It unfolds. 
So proto-Adam sits is his proto-longing. 
He knows this humanity thing can’t go anywhere. 
He feels the dead end.

Then the humor:
 
Wild boar? 
Long pause
Deep sigh.

Wild hyena?
Longer pause
Deeper sigh.

Let’s try various birds…a peacock maybe?
Even longer pause
Even deeper sigh.

And this goes on
and on
and on 

All the while the longing increases
The sighs grow more despairing
The incompleteness becomes more and more palpable
Exhaustion takes over
Naming all the creatures is not a simple job
Especially without a creative collaborative team

Just rest
The possibility for whole human life is coming
You will need rest

But just you wait!

Imagine life that begins and ends in a singular being
Imagine that almost unbearable longing

Then imagine what that THIS AT LAST
Will sound like

THIS
  at last
…at last
…at last

PROTO no more!
Human  Communion!
With the other
With God

Very very cool!







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