"I Am Coming Soon!"

“I Am Coming Soon!”
Revelation 22.8-21

I stood in the cloister and listened to the bells. To begin with, I could hear each of the ten, clear in the morning air. But gradually, as the order changed and the echoes multiplied in the ancient stone colonnades, they seemed to merge into one: a glorious, wild, ancient sound, awakening not only echoes but memories of years long past and imaginings of years yet to come. Even so, out of the rich confusion of their noise, the lowest two or three notes kept intruding, wherever they were in the constantly changing pattern: dong – dong – dong, dong . . . dong . . . dong. They were part of the whole music and yet seemed to be saying: Pay attention. This is important. Listen hard. We’re telling you something. Keep awake...