11/10/2024: Skipping to the End

In this second week of this series (“It’s the End of the World as We Know It….And I Feel Fine”), we continue to examine apocalyptic scriptures and consider how we behave when life feels like everything is coming apart. I wonder how many of you remember the Left Behind series from the 1990’s fictionally describing in terrifying detail how it would be to experience the Rapture and the End Times. Human beings have always wanted a timeline and a strategy for times of fear and upheaval. What we really want is to skip to the end; we struggle to live in the present uncertainty, and part of how we cope is to try to speculate when and how this story will end. But we live in the times of in-between. Jesus tells us that “no one knows the day or the hour”. How can we live in the present in moments like these? What is our call in such times? What is the role of believers and the Church? Let us not hide under the covers, but allow this apocalypse (literally “uncovering”) to show us new things about ourselves and new paths forward.

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