With and Without [Proper 12B]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Ephesians 3:14-21 With and Without Long before the introduction of the Doomsday Clock, before weapons were capable of mass destruction, back when the world had four corners and the seas were populated with monsters, a man called Paul, well Saul, but then Paul, thought the world was about to end. With a blast, not of bomb but of trumpet. And not into oblivion but into something new – like rebirth, like resurrection. Any day now… The clock was ticking; creation groaning; redemption coming. Any day now… I stood still and just stared at a wall. Is that pilgrimage? Halfway between me and Paul lived a man named Herbert, a monk who bought the Episcopate and built a cathedral. The very cathedral in which I stood and stared at the wall. I was looking at his name. One thousand years stood between Herbert and Paul. One thousand years stands between Herbert and me – me, ...