December 27, 2007
Word
Feast of St John Jn 1.1-18 John Evangelist, the writer, said that the Word became flesh, full of grace and truth. Toni Morrison, another writer, said that it is language that makes us human.
The DNA people take their intriguing double helices plus only four letters of our alphabet and make up a language of their own. It’s these “words,” they say, that when parsed a certain way for each of us not only become our flesh, but make us human, as well. Further, and probably much to the disappointed amazement of some, some now claim there’s not even such a thing as race, just different “carnations.”
I sure hope they leave sex alone, or else, along with some other withdrawal pains, there won’t be anything left for us to make a fuss over. We churchers would simply have to get on with the business of grace and truth and maybe some justice on the side. Then we could leave sex to the fig leaves of our imaginations.
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