The Fullness of Time

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Abraham Heschel said Judaism is a religion of time. The Hebrew day begins at sunset because time began in a “dark” abyss. (skotos) I can think of no better way to describe what I see in the country to which I gave (at least) six years of my life. As a soldier, I saw a once-great civilization brought utterly to its knees, and it is a fate I can see on our horizon as well.

If it is our soldiers’ labor that produces the fruit of liberty, then veterans are the first in line to collect on whatever debt is named when Americans claim “freedom is not free.” Just because it isn’t free doesn’t mean that people won’t feel entitled to it. Entitlement is the expectation that you should get more than your fair share, that others must work more so that you can work less. One of the oldest contracts was summarized by Psaul in his second letter to a community of believers in Thessaloniki, "If any will not work, neither let him eat.” (3:2)