“Re-Imagine the World: The Parable of the Empty Jar” A Sermon for University Congregational Church Sunday, July 9, 2017
“Re-Imagine the World: The Parable of the Empty Jar” A Sermon for University Congregational Church Sunday, July 9, 2017 By Rev. Paul E. Ellis Jackson Traditional Word Jesus said: The kingdom of the [Father] is like a woman; carrying a jar full of meal and walking a long way. The handle on the jar broke; the meal poured out behind her on the road. She was unaware, she knew not her loss. When she came into her house, she put down the jar (and) found it empty. The Gospel of Thomas, 97 We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use. From the Tao De Ching Contemporary Word “The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.” ― Woody Allen...