My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Alpha and Omega
The end time, the culmination, is to be the same as beginning time. The alpha is the omega. It is complete in the interpretation where it no longer matters that there be beginning or end. When we say Jesus is both alpha and omega it is saying he has achieved this, or that he has become that point since it is not achieved -- not in the sense of accomplishing it by dint of one's effort. It is the achieving of becoming, or is it instead the ceasing to become, an actualization that is a more passive than active process, a state of being content in itself.
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