MEDITATION: The last book

It (almost) never fails. Someone gets serious about church or the Bible, buys a big, new copy of the scriptures, then announces that the first thing to be studied will be the Book of Revelation. It happens that way almost every single time.

The book’s actual title, The Apocalypse, refers to a grand, spiritual unveiling. Want a few similes? Remember when Dorothy and her three friends discover that the great wizard is a funny old wit of a man from Kansas? Remember the first time you realized how beautiful your mother was? Remember when something clicked into place and all those 88 ivory keys before you started to make sense and music happened? Apocalypse = Opening what was closed, not necessarily “gloom, despair and agony on me.”