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| NYC Train Crash |
The holiday rush got off to a painful start with a train crash in New York City, a police helicopter crash in Scotland and then a 65 car pile up outside Boston--all due to human error. We simply cannot get there from here--as the expression goes--without some human error. That train was going over 80mph when it hit the curve marked 30mph. Yet in it it all, I see a metaphor of people with lists to cover between now and Christmas--and the wrecks are people bumping into people, emotional; wrecks by the time it all gets done--and for what, Jesus' birthday? The only recorded time when I saw Jesus deliberately bump into others was in the clash with the temple money changers--and perhaps when he rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. For the most part, he engaged people to raise the dead, heal the sick, set the lame to walking, and feeding people in many different ways. Instead of the wreckage, his was a new life made out of the lives he touched. He named those lives as part of God's Kingdom as it became reality in Advent to be born on Christmas Day.
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