Coracle Trust E-Reflections
Beginnings and endings (Week 1)
Thursday 7 January 2010
They returned to their country by another route. (Matthew 2:12)
The Journey of the Magi, James Jacques Joseph Tissot
It’s said that the first part of our adult journey of life and faith is to leave home and the second part to return home - and that the routes taken are quite different.
The season of Epiphany taking us up to Lent started today. Epiphany, meaning to shine upon, reveal or to appear, manifest, here refers to God revealing Jesus to the Gentiles as God and Messiah, his appearance heralding the beginning of a new order, of both a life and a death.
Were we lead all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I have seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
From The Journey of the Magi, TS Eliot
Question: Where and/or what is home?