04.19.09

a sleep of prisoners ..

Posted in emergence, leadership, semiotics, the arts, transition at 11:00 am by len

Darrel Guder writes, (Missional Church, 17)

“In an incisive essay on the missional challenge of late postmodern Western culture, Diogenes Allen suggested that Christopher Fry had captured our situation well in his play A Sleep of Prisoners. Allen introduced the following quotation with these comments: “We remain captives within a mental framework that has actually been broken. We are like prisoners who could walk out of a prison because all what would enclose us has been burst open, but we remain inside because we are asleep. Christopher Fry, however, tells us that this is the time to wake up.”

The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhwere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.

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