A Season for Everything
The Roman Catholic Lectionary brings some reflection on the cycles which people seem to repeat over and over again. People are like the seasons as the passage from Ecclesiastes reminds us. Tension is also part of the human experience. Cognitive dissonance describes that situation where there is a difference between what we understand and what we experience or attempt to input about an event or a situation. The apparent contradiction of a God of Love and the psalmist’s praise of the protector of Israel who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle encourages reflection. One option is to walk away from the tension and paradox. Peter faced the situation where the person who was the “Messiah” of Israel declares that He must suffer and die. The strong arm and mighty hand which had caused exodus from slavery in Moses time was to die as a human? The contradictions are not resolved by walking away. Peter stayed with the struggle.
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