It's just the debris of life....
A reflection on the readings for Advent 1C: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Luke 21:25-36 A few years ago I was fascinated as I watched a documentary on the process by which large buildings and skyscrapers are torn down. One of the best ways to do this is to implode the building into itself. This requires careful analysis by trained professionals. They do a thorough study of the building and its construction to gage the way it will collapse. Then they place dynamite in strategic places through out the building and ignite the dynamite in a particular sequence so as to cause the building to implode, or collapse into itself, rather than explode out. The principle is simple: If you remove the support structure of a building at a certain point you will cause the layer above to collapse on the layer below the point. The explosives are just the trigger for the collapse because gravity is what brings the building down. Imploding contains the debris and protects buildings and land that surrou...