Though we do not live with the daily terror and harshness of street children in Johannesburg, our faith calls us to be with Roy as he does his work, his call to help them find their voices in the world. Ovum and sperm. Female and male. Even science has not been able to overcome nature's way of beginning a new life. It doesn't take love, though we would want that, but it does take fertility.
Enemies make love.
A fig tree buds in the middle of chaos. God is near. Think of the tension for those early believers who thought the end of time was coming in their lifetime. Something in us yearns for life, maybe more when the end is near. Last week, I asked members of the New Testament class to write a credo of belief.