It's About Time

Reflection on a 50th Anniversary of Ordination Reunion: Sept. 13-15, 2011

Time does a lot of things. It allows for resentments to recede, prejudices to disappear, hard-line beliefs to mellow. Limbs that don't work very well, shortterm memory that is like non-existent and senses that are failing make it easier to appreciate the bond we have. Those years we had together in a foreign land were both heady and sometimes harrowing. We came home changed forever and maybe for a time feeling like kings. The kingdom we envisioned didn't materialize. It was not our kingdom; it was His.

Some of us were soon defeated; others have stayed the course; all have found their way and no two ways were the same. God has changed. He has been sometimes elusive, sometimes, it seemed, cruel, often our bedrock. He ultimatey showed us how to love, in good times and in bad, in the loneliness and in the busyness. The Hound of Heaven never gave up.

It's about time we came together. The Hound worked through our special three. With great persistence, they, one especially, brought us together. The bond has transcended death. We have not all seen each other face to face, but we have the bond.

Our spiritual leader told us it is about time. Love is spelled T I M E.