Truth sometimes so grandly and beautifully packaged, that we let it race by. We know the music, or recognize it, but very few people know that underneath the tune in the Advent portions are powerful words of the prophet Isaiah, among the most familiar chapters in scripture. The The Shaking of the Foundations. Isaiah, a prophet who lived long ago and far away, lifted the meaning of the events of his day, of the pain and suffering and loss of his people to a level where the people could see that they were part of a bigger drama, actors on a stage where the Creator was the director. For my money, he touches in this chapter on the great themes.
All people are grass.
Isaiah wondered out loud about why he should bother to speak to us. God invests us with meaning and the possibility that this life is going somewhere. Life isn't just the recurring cycle of the grass coming up and being mowed down, though I grant there are experiences in this life and days you live through that make you feel like you've been mowed down. Life's journey ends with a God who will lead us, feed us, and gather us up. The biblical word is sin.