Hidden
Dear Eugene, What is there to speak when the truth chooses to remain elusive, anonymous, silent? What is a preacher to preach when God chooses to not show up? Can He? Of course, don't you think? " Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known ," thus says the Lord who created heaven and earth. But what if the problem is not His? That we think we are calling on the name of the One True Lord but we aren't? What if we were just seduced and deceived by the "sweet poison of the false infinite," as C. S. Lewis puts it, and thought we were tasting the real thing? What if God doesn't show up because He wants us to wait? What if the moment He asks for our waiting happens right in the middle of a sermon, at a tight or even dangerous cross-section where we would rather get out of asap? It's been a year since Leonard Cohen passed away. (I am still surprised you've made no mention of him i...