Chip Filson
Humor and creativity can often help us understand what normal prose or logic cannot. Here are two contemporary interpretations of The Last Supper.
Source: Jared Brock, The Last Supper was 1991 Years Ago Tonight. Designer Microsoft’s Copilot.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8TovTZl8Q)
Humor expressing Easter’s hope and purpose in a modern idiom.
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by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
There came a dove, an Easter dove,
When morning stars grew dim;
It fluttered round my lattice bars,
To chant a matin hymn.
It brought a lily in its beak,
Aglow with dewy sheen;
I caught the strain, the incense breathed,
And uttered praise between.
It brought a shrine of holy thoughts
To calm my soul that day;
I caught the meaning of the note,
Why did it fly away?
Come peaceful dove, sweet Easter dove!
Above earth’s storm and strife,
Sing of the joy of Easter-tide,
Of light and hope and life. (1910)
In a famous passage of Paradise Lost, Milton’s God acknowledges that He could have created Adam and Eve without freedom. But what would there be to praise? “Not free, what proof could they have given sincere / Of true allegiance, constant faith or love, / Where only what they needs must do appeared, / Not what they would?” (Source: Legalizing the Resurrection)