From Ascension to Pentecost
May 27, 2006, 7:41 am
Posted by Robert P. Imbelli
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
W.S. Merwin, “Separation”
Indeed. Evil is the absence of God. I have often spoken of the terrible suffering of those in Africa and other places, where there is hunger, malnutrition and disease and how important Matthew 25:31-46 is in relation to the downtrodden.
But the other side of the coin is that these are the first ones on the list for the Reign of God. That they are indeed blessed above all because they have been filled with good things. So amazing that the crippled, the sick and the outcast are the first to gain God’s favor.