Healing Through the Fisher King
(Daniel 5; John 6:1-15) "I sat upon the shore fishing, with the arid plains behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? " (Lines from T S Eliot’s The Waste Land) If Eliot’s words are enigmatic, then ambiguous is the designation of Christ as king. Here is one, after all, who was laid in a manger. Who said, he came not to be served, but to serve. Who was hailed only unequivocally as a king when he hung upon a cross. Yet, we say, his is the name that is above all other