The Snares of the World and the Gift of God

The Snares of the World and the Gift of God
James 1.9-18

‘Listen for the echo,’ said my friend. We were standing at the back of a great cathedral, and the choir was about to sing a powerful, beautiful anthem. Sure enough: the conductor knew what he was doing. As each part of the anthem developed, the building seemed to pick it up, cherish it, play with it, and use it as the background to the next part. After a while it was hard to tell what was actual echo and what was in our memory, in our mind, while we were listening to the next bit. When, finally, the choir fell silent, there was a full ten seconds in which we could savour the last chord. The whole building was designed that way, so as to give the impression that, along with the human choir, there were other, older voices, hundreds of years of worship on earth, joining in. Not to mention the heavenly host themselves...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright