The atmosphere of this pandemic, which just keeps getting worse, seems to give this Advent a new meaning. There is a lot of reflection these days, indicating that this is a time to rethink everything — capitalism, democracy, the imbalance of the rich and poor in our economic system, racism and the mission of the Christian church.
This is a short list of problems that are surfacing for a serious re-think. The whole poem is printed in my last post. Creating a sacred space for about eight other people to listen to their heart and share what they find, is a deeply spiritual experience. Advent seems to be a pilgrimage of faith and reflection. A pilgrimage —walking on purpose— begins with a call, requires preparation, then a commitment to walk, until the arrival at a destination.
And then returning home again with new insight. It is time for the pilgrim in me to travel in the dark, To learn to read the stars That shine in my soul. I will wait for the stars, Trust their guidance, And let their light be enough for me. The day the circle was to meet, I woke up at 5 am with new questions on my mind. Is this the voice of God speaking to me in this question? Am I so stuck in the physical world that I believe a vaccine will get my life back to normal? There is only one reality, the incarnational reality that the whole world is connected in one network of life.
I remembered how I had to readjust my thinking when Black Lives Matter raised the issues of racism. But finally, I came to admit that I am guilty of racism by association, being a white man. I have benefited from racist policies and practices in my country and my society.
I have quietly benefited. That was followed by a further thought: At a moment-in-time we were able to capture fire and put it in a glass bulb. We called it the electric light. A godsend, we thought. Yet that invention changed the way we looked at reality. We began to lose touch with the spiritual reality, coming to believe that we are now in control of how we participate in life.
In this time, when science provides us with many life saving medicines and time saving technologies, we have come to accept a materialist worldview as the correct belief about what is important in the world. We can now choose how we participate in life and use physical stuff for our wealth and benefit. We left the ancient wisdom that valued the natural rhythm of light and darkness. We forgot that the energy of the light of love is the basis for our life choices. We entered into an age that emphasized the value of the individual.
It's important to note that in the film, Jake and his girlfriend drove up in a sedan. The film never gets as overt as the book does which is saying something because the book ending is still pretty nuanced. Instead, when Jake and his girlfriend find themselves at the high school, the two of them take form as another couple that engage in a contemporary dance routine that outlines the rest of their life together. The dance leads to them to a gym where another , more svelte janitor I know, hang in there , dance battles New Jake and eventually stabs him to death and leaves him to die in the snow, which has since started falling from the gym ceiling.
Afterward, the real janitor goes to his truck outside and gets completely undressed as he watches flashbacks of his life unfold in front of him, unable to tell which were imagined and which were real. The delusions devolve into a cartoon, and then an animated pig appears and leads the naked janitor back into the high school. He takes one final form as an elderly version of Jake, accepting a Nobel prize for physics to a black-tie audience of his peers.
He ends his acceptance with a performance of "Lonely Room" from Oklahoma! This is where the nuance of Oklahoma! The song, as originally staged in the musical, is about Jud wanting to break out of his routine and find a woman and a life to call his own. More importantly, it's sung right after the song "Pore Jud is Daid," which is the song where Curly and Jud consider how the best way to be appreciated is for Jud to simply hang himself and be done with it, making everyone realize how much they meant to him.
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