One defining moment?

"The notion that there is a moment - one moment - that defines a person's life is outdated. For post-postmodernists, or whatever we've become, it is hopelessly old-fashioned to think of human lives not just as narratives but as narratives with a climax. We are taught not to accept those fairy-tale notions, and for good reason.

What could be more archaic than stamping a narrative on the random moments of existence?

But at the same time we crave narrative."

----- David Gessner, Soaring With Fidel



This whole week Christians build toward a remembrance of one defining moment in a Person's life. How old-fashioned of us.

But then, Jesus was no post-modernist. He was both intra- and supra-cultural. Time and definition and convention He defies, but works within them all.

And for One with an infinite of moments to His existence (as the confession of faith says: He was, and is, and is to come), there was this one long holiday weekend in the amazing narrative of His life that pretty much stood out above the rest...