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Chiropracty 202: Jesus wept
Chiropracty 202: Jesus wept.
My previous thoughts on emotional mobility (see the previous Chiropracty 101 entry if you haven't read it yet) got me thinking about a song fragment I generated a couple months ago, revolving around the famously shortest verse in the Bible, which is "Jesus wept." In the story in which that verse is found, Jesus weeps over the death of his friend Lazarus, then raises him from the dead. The first obvious question to me is, "Why stand there weeping when you can fix it?" If I know me, and if I were Jesus, I'd be saying, "No, no, really, it's okay people - check this out, I'm going to make it all better!" Wanting to save the people from having to endure the grief, and perhaps saving _myself_ from their grief, as well as any grief of my own. The fact that he took that time to grieve instead is one of the many things that reminds me how much I am not like him.
I wonder why you wept
when you had it all in hand
I know you're clear about the reasons -
it was you who made the plan
when you see what I can not
when you've seen it all before
hard to fathom that there's anything
that can touch you anymore
I wonder why you wept...
Deeper questions also hover around this story. Getting past the question of why to mourn someone's death when you can bring him back to life, how about why bring him back to life when he's going to die eventually anyway? When we're all going to die? When our lives are but a blink of an eye, and they all end the same, such that on a cosmic level neither our death nor our life would seem to be of very great significance? What fascinates me here is that I believe there are actual answers to these questions, and while I many never be able to fathom it all, just wrestling with the questions seems to leave me more open to the clues to it all that I find in my daily life, in my own heart, in the hearts of those around me... My question is really about how we move the heart of the Eternal now, today. Does Jesus weep for me, for us, and why? And what does this say about the things that make me weep... and what should?
Chiropracty 202: Jesus wept.
My previous thoughts on emotional mobility (see the previous Chiropracty 101 entry if you haven't read it yet) got me thinking about a song fragment I generated a couple months ago, revolving around the famously shortest verse in the Bible, which is "Jesus wept." In the story in which that verse is found, Jesus weeps over the death of his friend Lazarus, then raises him from the dead. The first obvious question to me is, "Why stand there weeping when you can fix it?" If I know me, and if I were Jesus, I'd be saying, "No, no, really, it's okay people - check this out, I'm going to make it all better!" Wanting to save the people from having to endure the grief, and perhaps saving _myself_ from their grief, as well as any grief of my own. The fact that he took that time to grieve instead is one of the many things that reminds me how much I am not like him.
I wonder why you wept
when you had it all in hand
I know you're clear about the reasons -
it was you who made the plan
when you see what I can not
when you've seen it all before
hard to fathom that there's anything
that can touch you anymore
I wonder why you wept...
Deeper questions also hover around this story. Getting past the question of why to mourn someone's death when you can bring him back to life, how about why bring him back to life when he's going to die eventually anyway? When we're all going to die? When our lives are but a blink of an eye, and they all end the same, such that on a cosmic level neither our death nor our life would seem to be of very great significance? What fascinates me here is that I believe there are actual answers to these questions, and while I many never be able to fathom it all, just wrestling with the questions seems to leave me more open to the clues to it all that I find in my daily life, in my own heart, in the hearts of those around me... My question is really about how we move the heart of the Eternal now, today. Does Jesus weep for me, for us, and why? And what does this say about the things that make me weep... and what should?
