Luke 9: 11b-17
He loves to tinker with gadgets.
He is fascinated by the inner
workings of machines, how the gears and levers of mechanisms connect and work
together to make things happen.
While thumbing through one of his
technology magazines, he finds the schematic for a clock that operates not by
batteries or electric current but by a complex series of weights and pulleys.
A new project!
So begins many hours of
constructing the clock's cabinet, fashioning and fitting the necessary gears
and wheels, devising and measuring the weights and chains.
When he has finally finished, the
clock works well for a while, but stops within a few hours.
So he carefully takes apart every
piece and refits them.
Again the clock works well for
some time, but, again, stops.
He spends what seems like an
eternity studying every piece of wood and metal, but still the clock will not
run consistently
His loving wife, who is usually
very understanding of his projects, urges him to give it up.
When she finds the pieces of the
clock in a box under his workbench after a few weeks, she thinks that he has
finally admitted defeat, so she hauls the carton of clock remnants out to the
trash.
But he quickly realizes the box is missing and
immediately rescues the broken timepiece.
He hasn't given up.
He had discovered that one of the
gear wheels was not ground properly - it did not fit as tightly with the other
gears as it should to run evenly and consistently.
With the help of a machinist
friend, he fashions, by hand, a new metal wheel that fits the clock's mechanism
perfectly.
The clock, re-created from its
brokenness, redeemed from the trash heap, now hangs in their living room,
keeping perfect time
C under the watchful eye of its
creator.
Like the tinkerer, God refuses to
give up on his creation.
God does not seek our destruction
but our redemption;
God finds no satisfaction in
sufferings we inflict upon ourselves,
but rejoices in our making things
right.
Despite our ignorance of God,
despite our displacement of God
with more immediately comforting and less mysterious concepts,
despite our outright rejection of
God,
God continues to call us back,
always making the first move to being reconciled with us and his creation.
This Sunday of the Trinity (on
this first week after the Great Fifty Days of Easter) focuses our attention on
the great, profound love of God for his creation
a love too deep, too limitless
for us to fully grasp and understand.
May we realize the presence and
availability of hope, purpose and healing from the God who creates,
the God who redeems,
the God who breathes life and
love into every molecule of creation.
In the name of the Father, and the
Son, and the Holy Spirit
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