The subway doors close us in with people filled with resentment. Always around us are hundreds of thousands of them, each the hidden presence of God. When all I am thinking about is my own journey home, I will not see the one who is among them. But it is a fearsome thing to look too closely, for when God emerges in the crowd, time stops, as it does for John. After that I must decrease.
Salvation is like that.
It's not about me. The Rev. Kenneth Arnold of New York is a deacon, playwright and editor of CrossCurrents, an interreligious journal.