Reading: Psalm 107:4-9.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town. Psalm 107:4
Garrison Keillor, America's master radio story-teller, once ended a story before it came to any
conclusion. His fans complained. So the next week he asked his audience whether that wasn't
really true--so many lives never getting anywhere, just running on and on and finally run out.
The Psalm reading today takes note of the same thing. People wander all their lives, and never
find their way to the town, to any goal or conclusion. T. S. Eliot said something similar about
modern western culture in his famous line: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a
whimper.
The Psalmist knows the secret about finishing our life. It is not an achievement, but a gift. The
gift-giver is God. Unless the Lord takes us in hand, we wander, never getting to the town.
Finishing a life is never a chance accident. Only someone who got there before can show us the
way.
When Jesus finished his course, he put his life back in the hands of his Father. His life came to
closure, not with a whimper, but with the bang of Easter. For us whimperers who never get
anywhere, he offers to take us along to his own Big Bang. Not only will he show us the way, he
is the Way. Lives linked to him attain closure, the same resurrection high that overjoys every
whimper.
Prayer: Bring our lives to Christ's Easter closure, dear God, so that our wanderings may cease.
Today's world offers us a myriad of places to go, but they all end with a whimper. Bring us to
your town by the Way that works for everyone, your beloved Son, our brother Jesus. Amen.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town. Psalm 107:4
Garrison Keillor, America's master radio story-teller, once ended a story before it came to any
conclusion. His fans complained. So the next week he asked his audience whether that wasn't
really true--so many lives never getting anywhere, just running on and on and finally run out.
The Psalm reading today takes note of the same thing. People wander all their lives, and never
find their way to the town, to any goal or conclusion. T. S. Eliot said something similar about
modern western culture in his famous line: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a
whimper.
The Psalmist knows the secret about finishing our life. It is not an achievement, but a gift. The
gift-giver is God. Unless the Lord takes us in hand, we wander, never getting to the town.
Finishing a life is never a chance accident. Only someone who got there before can show us the
way.
When Jesus finished his course, he put his life back in the hands of his Father. His life came to
closure, not with a whimper, but with the bang of Easter. For us whimperers who never get
anywhere, he offers to take us along to his own Big Bang. Not only will he show us the way, he
is the Way. Lives linked to him attain closure, the same resurrection high that overjoys every
whimper.
Prayer: Bring our lives to Christ's Easter closure, dear God, so that our wanderings may cease.
Today's world offers us a myriad of places to go, but they all end with a whimper. Bring us to
your town by the Way that works for everyone, your beloved Son, our brother Jesus. Amen.
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