With all the buzz about freedom, and what the word means to a follower of Christ, and in what true freedom consists, I found this phrase in today's Office of Readings, in the letter of a disciple to Diognetus apt, and more than a little challenging:
Christians live amidst perishable things, while awaiting the freedom from change and decay that will be theirs in heaven.
We often describe the next world as a state free from death, free from decay and sickness, but the positive value of changelessness is hard for us to wrap our minds around, living as we do amidst of the Cult of the New, the fetishization of the ephemeral, the worship of Change.
Yet another reason why the Rock of Peter is profoundly counter-cultural.
We wait in joyful hope for freedom from change.
While to that Rock I'm clinging... how can I keep from singing?
Universalis, your very own breviary in pixels...
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