Mourning Becomes Dancing

Anyone who believes these words seriously is well on the way toward possessing the key to the solution of the problem of life itself. We hunger and thirst for some word of our own worthwhileness. We hunger and thirst for deeper insights into who we are, what we are doing here, where we are heading, if anywhere. We hunger and thirst for the appearance of a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel of pain and death. We hunger and thirst for means of unlocking the door to the mystery of the “Why?” of it all. And in today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus offers us the key, “known only to saints and to children,” as someone has said. And the key is: “I need Jesus.”

A legislative committee was assigned to investigate conditions in a mental hospital of a large Eastern State. A dance for the patients was planned for the evening the committee arrived and the members were invited to attend. As…