“Didn’t I tell you!!!”

Remember how many times you told someone how wonderful something was going to be because you had done it and they hadn’t?  Then they experienced it and they were overcome with the joy of it and you got to say, “Didn’t I tell you…”.  The great “didn’t I tell you!” joy.  Few joys are like that.  I have that experience all the time.  The reason is all the great experiences I have been gracefully given.  And when we’ve had a great experience what we want more than anything is to share it with others.  (There is a sermon in there).  Such is the woodfire kiln.  It is perhaps the greatest liturgical act available to those at Union.  It is like seeing Chartres Cathedral or the Grand Canyon or sweetly kissing your hurting lover’s wound.  When she is in mid-fire and the door is open and the fire is lazily meandering in a 22’ horizontal swirl or when she gets to 2400+° and the door is opened, and it knocks you back and the roaring light leaps out and engulfs you in brilliance…and God is so real…and He whispers “wait until I unwrap you completely and you behold the heavens.” And then we will hear the ultimate, “Didn’t I tell you!”

P.S.  For those who have eyes and ears to hear, come by the wood kiln tonight and meet God.

The Liturgy has begun.