Special Benediction ~ April 30, 2006

After the great blow, we fled, seeking refuge in betweenness, uneasy in the cities, happy only on the road, where life's sliced thin enough to bear.
Wrapped in anonymity we could obliterate that story, the one that ended badly, whose end eviscerated its beginnings. We could go back, unweave it strand by strand, so the pain of each separate strand could be borne.

But then the stranger interposed himself, dragged the story out of us, rewove its separate threads to some more glorious end
and then-then excused himself to make a phone call and was never seen again, and we sat stunned and then went out and read that story in the stars and agreed all roads lead home.

George Slanger, Theology Today, January 2003:

 

Copyright 2006 -- The Rev. Allen V. Harris

Franklin Circle Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

1688 Fulton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113-3096