Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20

Proper 27 (32) - Year A

Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20 or Psalm 78:1-7 or Psalm 70

Usually we think of a voice as active and an ear as passive. Hear that here it is the voice that is still and the ear that inclines. This reversal is the energy that moves the generations forward as the voice is still ahead and our inclination tilts toward it. We have a choice about continuing to incline toward what the voice still has to say or settling for what we have heard so far. May you choose to listen beyond what has so far been heard that the unheard might yet be heard.

Let's see how Wisdom's theory goes
- desire for instruction leads to keeping laws
- - keeping laws assures immortality
- - - immortality brings us to God

For want of desire, God is lost. What are you desiring so much these days that when you are involved in it you have no notion of time ("peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes")? Choose that which brings forth this lack of sense of time (loving what you are and do), that moves us into divine space.

To incline our desire is to recognize our dissatisfaction with the limits of today. We hear better is yet to come than where we have arrived and feel the present as threat rather than arrival. And so we recognize how far short of immortality we are and how laws do not draw us beyond our present limits but hold us here. We call out, "Come, O God!" - "Come, Messiah!" - "Come Wisdom beyond our present difficulty!"

Choose well in which direction you incline your ear. Does present law or future openness offer a larger God with whom we might play?

http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2005/november2005.html