Brueggemann’s king
The king of whom Brueggemann writes is not Pharaoh and not Solomon, but us. We are the numb ones, unfeeling. We are the ones who want to, who must, control. All. Forever. On page 47 of The Prophetic Imagination he cites as examples: tyranny in a marriage; favorite anger or hatred. “Don’t you wish it’d go on forever/and never stop?” If we want it to go on forever in our life, we must allow the rest of it in the stops as well, for stops are integral. Live here. Just not only here. But never without it.
:- Doug.
