Cracked Clay Jars and Light

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in   (Anthem by Leonard Cohen)

I was downloading this music with these lyrics into my NOOK tablet this morning when I realized how prophetic the words are.

We clay jars—humans made from dirt and Spirit blown into our beings are best when we let the cracks happen and the Light come in. Yes, I know we come from an egg and a sperm, fertilized ovum, that stays deep in the darkness of the womb until forty weeks later a human baby is born to a human mother and father who wait patiently for the baby to come out into the light and be born. Where did Adam and Eve come from and why did they have to leave the Garden of Eden (I…