We live for the end. We love good endings. We love to read the book that is full of
mysterious twists and turns and our minds begin to imagine the end.
“How will this end?”, we wonder, and the temptation
to turn to the last page can become overwhelming. How can the author bring together all of
these plot lines and solve all of the main character’s dilemmas in the
remaining pages? So we keep on reading,
because we know that the end is still to come.
Sometimes the story is so
good that we don’t want it to end. We
would rather stay lost in the writer’s imagination. We don’t want our tour through
fantasy-land to end, because, well, this is the life we want to live and, even
though we cannot live that life, we can imagine it. So, we slow down our
reading pace, drinking in each word, like the first sip of morning coffee or the
last sip of evening wine.
And sometimes, well, the
story is just not very good. We want to skip to the end and get this dreary
read over with. Or we just put the book away. Enough.
What kind of story are you
living? What kind of ending do you imagine for your story? Do you want to keep
reading?
It’s the Sabbath before the Sunday
on which the crowds adored the main character. They loved His story. They thought they knew how it would end: the king
is coming!
But wait, is he a king or
criminal? Who could have dreamt that this is what the Author had in mind? Their
songs become jeers? Their palms become
swords? Holy Week!
We live for the end. We love
good endings. Imagine that this story
isn’t just the old, old story. Imagine that His story is your story too? How do
you want it to end?
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