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October 19, 2011
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The Good News According to Luke
Notice how myths and parables interact. Our myth is a symbol system out of which we think and operate. Everyone has a myth. We have to have our myth because it creates our world and provides our frame of reference. In contrast, a parable confronts our world and subverts it. It doesn’t call for discussion, debate, or question; it is not God-as-information. Rather it is God-as-invitation-and-challenge. A parable calls us to insight and decision. A parable doesn’t lead us to endless analysis; it’s either a flashing insight or it’s nothing.
Jesus is never afraid to put things in a hard way. He’s not afraid of using a word that’s inevitably going to be misunderstood. He puts his truth out there; dealing with it is the listener’s problem. He is saying, in effect, “Struggle with what I’m saying!” In general, Jesus doesn’t spend a great deal of time qualifying his point and making sure everybody understands it clearly. As Rainer Maria Rilke writes, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.”
Adapted from The Good News According to Luke: Spiritual Reflections, pp. 120, 162
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