God and Man

The comic strip “Unstrange Phenomena” is usually pretty silly and surreal, but this morning the author published something far above his normal goofiness.

This is a worthy subject for meditation, for the image depicts man toiling, his image producing a shadow of words in the shining light of God’s glory. Pope Benedict XVI once described himself as “a humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord”, and I think this comic echoes that image to some extent.

Though perhaps the farmer here is Christ himself, who exists at the focus of God and man as True God and True Man himself.

Every time I look at this, I find another possible interpretation. That, my friend, is poetry.