Is this darkness in you too? (13th Sun OT 2018)
I try not to overdo movie quotes, really I do, but this is from The Thin Red Line , spoken by a soldier in war. (I first heard the quote in this astonishing music and you should seriously skip my homily and spend all day listening to Explosions in the Sky) “This great evil--where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might have known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you too? Have you passed through this night?” I thought of the soldier’s question because it's answered to some degree in all of these readings. The Book of Wisdom says it bluntly: “Death was not God’s doing.” So a clever person might jump on that and ask “Well if God didn’t make it how did it get here? I thought He made everything. And why doesn’t he stop it? I thought He was all-po