Readings for Thursday of the First Week of Advent: Psalm 118: 19-24; Isaiah 26: 1-6; Matthew 7: 21-27 Rock of Ages They called him a fool, building on sand, but he knew that those dunes were rock, once, weathered into sparkling, dangerous beauty, shifting with time, surfing the earth in step with his mortality; he knew that even bedrock sags with age and sleep and generations. His was the wisdom of an artists dream. After the house fell, he would shake his fist at the sky, and cry, and start over, a parable in the futility of forever. The other knew it, too. He knew that rock erodes, that the earth bucks and throws us off with a shrug of its shoulder, a blow of its nostrils, a wave. While the fool took the long view, the wise man chose today to build, knowing that nothing lasts except eternity, that eternity lives in every present moment; not a geological past nor an imagined future, but now, the moment rejected by fools, home to the Incarnate One forever. The Rev. Rosalind Hughes, Priest-in-Charge Church of the Epiphany Euclid, OH
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