Easter homily #4

The final homily I will offer comes from John Updike's "Seven Stanzas at
Easter" (1964).

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of
earlier ages;
let us walk through the door.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
   embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.
Received on Thu Apr 13 10:04:11 2006