Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Happy are those who make the LORD their trust, who do not turn to the proud, to
those who go astray after false gods.
She replies, "Well, I was just lost." He asks again, "No, how did you come to be lost?" Tanya
doesn't want to say. She says simply, "I was just lost. My father and I were running through the
city and it was on fire. The revolution had come and we were trying to escape and I was lost."
The Comrade General asked more emphatically, "How did you come to be lost?" She still didn't
want to say. Finally though she did say. "We were running through the city and my father let go of
my hand and I was lost." Then she added plaintively, "He let go." This is what she didn't want to
say.
The Comrade General said, "This is what I've been trying to tell you, Tanya. Komarov was not
your real father. Zhivago is your real father and I can promise you, Tanya, that if this man had
been there, your real father, he would never have let go of your hand."
That is the difference between a real father and a false father, is it not? A real father would never
let go of his daughter's hand. That is also the difference between our Father in heaven and the
gods of our world.
(Psalm 40:4
NRSV)
There is a beautiful and important scene in the movie Dr. Zhivago. The Comrade General is
talking with Tanya. He asks her, How did you come to be lost?"
God of all things, may I be true to you as you have been true to me. Amen.
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