Don't step on the crack...
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"Don't step on the crack, or you'll break your mother's back." The cracks in a sidewalk mark the transition from one slab of pavement to another. Even the lore of children recognizes that transitions are hazardous places.
The "cracks" -- the times of transition in our lives -- bring out strong emotion: putting the kindergartner on the school bus, watching the graduate march down the aisle in cap and gown, the mother crying at a wedding, the once-healthy person suddenly become a patient. Ultimately, there is the greatest transition of all: the transition between death and new life in Christ.
Fearsome ... emotion-laden ... beautiful at times ... always accompanied by anxiety: such are times of transition.
Singer and poet Leonard Cohen has written these words:
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
The cracks in our lives -- the times of transition -- are disturbing. But they are often the times when the light gets in.
The "cracks" -- the times of transition in our lives -- bring out strong emotion: putting the kindergartner on the school bus, watching the graduate march down the aisle in cap and gown, the mother crying at a wedding, the once-healthy person suddenly become a patient. Ultimately, there is the greatest transition of all: the transition between death and new life in Christ.
Fearsome ... emotion-laden ... beautiful at times ... always accompanied by anxiety: such are times of transition.
Singer and poet Leonard Cohen has written these words:
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
The cracks in our lives -- the times of transition -- are disturbing. But they are often the times when the light gets in.
