December 6
December 6
Marley’s Ghost
The dead Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge as a ghost within the “dream” of Scrooge. Scrooge recognizes that Marley is fettered. He inquires about the chain, Marley answers….
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
Marley comes to Scrooge to warn him in a “dream” that Marley is not the only one that is fettered by the chain that he made “link by link.” Marley’s chain formed by his actions carried “cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel” all representing how he lived life. Marley pursued finances. He came to warn Scrooge, that he too is making his own chain by his actions.
The message for us, is that we too, like Scrooge and Marley, are creating a chain of life, link by link. For Scrooge’s chain was formed by his wanting to be left alone, wanting to be void of relationship. God created us for relationship (Genesis) with God and others. The greatest and second greatest commandment is to love. To love is to be in relationship and how we are in that relationship.
During the celebrations of Christmas, we are the most happy when we are in relationship and not left alone. The links of that chain we wear are being formed all year long, but what kind of chain is being formed by our actions and thoughts.
The following days of this Advent Booklet will help us to ask the question, “what kind of chain am I making, ‘link by link.’”?
Marley’s Ghost
The dead Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge as a ghost within the “dream” of Scrooge. Scrooge recognizes that Marley is fettered. He inquires about the chain, Marley answers….
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
Marley comes to Scrooge to warn him in a “dream” that Marley is not the only one that is fettered by the chain that he made “link by link.” Marley’s chain formed by his actions carried “cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel” all representing how he lived life. Marley pursued finances. He came to warn Scrooge, that he too is making his own chain by his actions.
The message for us, is that we too, like Scrooge and Marley, are creating a chain of life, link by link. For Scrooge’s chain was formed by his wanting to be left alone, wanting to be void of relationship. God created us for relationship (Genesis) with God and others. The greatest and second greatest commandment is to love. To love is to be in relationship and how we are in that relationship.
During the celebrations of Christmas, we are the most happy when we are in relationship and not left alone. The links of that chain we wear are being formed all year long, but what kind of chain is being formed by our actions and thoughts.
The following days of this Advent Booklet will help us to ask the question, “what kind of chain am I making, ‘link by link.’”?
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