A Comedy. So far from the reality that one is left with the option of laughing or crying because the situation has already exceeded life’s maximum allotted capacity. Comical because imagination has been captured and a new way of doing life has been designed. Hope, sought.
The Magi knew where to find Him. The outcasts knew where to seek Him. The broken hearted knew where to listen to Him. The sick knew where to be healed by Him. The women knew where not to look and even Judas knew where to betray Him.
Comedy because everyone knew where to look except those who were supposed to know. The disciples didn’t know. Comedy. Different. Life giving.
A Tragedy because after we laugh, we cry. Tragic because we are expecting to laugh but there is no punch line. Tragic because the new way of life steers totally out of control. A tragedy because at first its dark, then its light, then its dark again.
A tragedy because life is difficult, painful, unfair.
A fairy tale because the ending is spectacular. The resolve is tremendous. The hope restored. Back in Kansas with Toto. A fairy tale because after the tragedy there is nowhere left, somehow a new world is birthed where there wasn’t one earlier that day. Somehow the parameters of life itself are stretched so far that a spiritual big bang occurs.
A hopeless situation is one where hope is rejected from the outset. With no hope, it is impossible to find Him. A molecule of hope is all that is needed to begin the fairy tale from distortion to gem stone, it is all that is needed to find a precious pearl, to find a lost coin, to avoid the empty tomb and seek Him amongst the living, not in a cemetery.
Hope bursts onto the scene like a million stars. A new world, my world, my life, a fairy tale.
