Trip Into The Challenge Of Jesus (Psalm 16:10; John 11:25 26)
“Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?” These lines begin the poem by GM Hopkins, “Spring and Fall.” It’s one of my favorite poems. It describes in wonderful language the curse under which all of us are born. And the poem ends by facing us with this reality that we cannot hold on to the beauty of our lives in the manner for which we long much like we cannot hold onto the beauty of the fall leaves. Our podcast system of writing does not adequately give you the words of this poem in the manner it deserves. So you need to read it somewhere else but its message points us to the Daily Texts today where the threat of life’s end is always upon us. Jesus confronts our own anguish about the end of life by asking us one of the hardest questions about life and death. He forces us to face his question because until we do, we do not have life.
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