November 28, 2005
Life
Advent is a fork in the road. And Yogi Berra’s wise counsel is that when you come to it, “take it.”
But there is more to our lives than putting one foot in front of the other. We talk as we go, we laugh and cry, we take another’s hand, we listen to another’s story. We honor their journey, a journey that is never just parallel to ours, but always intersecting.
In God’s economy, we can neither create nor stop the reality that life is connected. So far as we know, we may be the only part of life conscious of self. Somebody said that human beings are “so the universe will have something to talk through, so God will have something to talk with, and so the rest of us will have something to talk about.” The commitment to be aware of this — and to see it as it is — remains an essential part of our being, our privilege, our responsibility, our vocation.
And so, here’s a footnote for those who’ve managed to tread this far: Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.