Heaven, Earth and the Word

WORD 2day: Friday, 34th week in Ordinary time

November 25, 2022: Revelation 20: 1-4,11- 21:2; Luke 21: 29-33

We have heard the phrase in english, 'he moved earth and heaven to achieve something.' Moving heaven and earth is symbolically used as doing even what is impossible. Heaven and earth become a kind of immovable reference points naturally. Physics, Kinetics, Geography, History ...all of these subjects and others take heaven and earth as reference points to make possible an explanation for their theories and principles. Today the Lord says, these are not truly the unchanging reference points, they cannot be.

The true reference point for our life, for our actions, for our choices, has to be the Word. For those who hear the Word, keep it in their heart and live by it, will find a place in that New Heaven and New Earth... the heaven and the earth may keep becoming new and newer, it does not matter, as long as what matters to us is the Word and being faithful to it. 

There is always a yearning in our human heart to find something that can be unchanging, constant, a reliable ground on which one can build his or her life. This is why relationships that are unreliable and fluid are so unnerving for persons. The society today is tired of it - be it in interpersonal level (in friendships, courtships or among couples), in the social levels (lack of policies, unjust systems etc) or in the global levels (international stand offs and capitalistic hegemonies)! Everywhere, there is a disillusionment because there is a lack of solid unchanging ground! The fact is there can be nothing absolutely unchanging. Even the earth and the heaven will pass away sometimg. But God alone never changes! There is our constant, unchanging and never ending reference point.. God, the Living Word!