Mike Stavlund's poem "Rapture" immediately brought to mind images of a world flipped around. Where businessmen take on the role of their immigrant landscapers. I love the dislocation of the poem - I imagine day-traders riding to the office on a lawnmower, ties blowing in the wind. I love the sense of Jubilee made playfully real in Stavlund's imagery.

It also brought to mind a favorite song of mine, Chris Whitley's "Accordingly." In Whitely's lyrics I think we see a secular yearning for the same kind of promises we practitioners of Christ's economy live in. See below:

Businessmen like babes lay sleeping on the lawn
Cops are standing naked, breaking into song
If i took her now as the one for me
Could effect a change accordingly

Statesmen and salesmen bend to kiss the ground
Lawyers and losers hold hands and hang around
If i took her now as the one for me
Could effect a change accordingly

What if i would place my trust in you
If i had no doubt the way i do
I could take you now as the one for me
Could effect a change accordingly
Could effect a change accordingly

Of course, Whitley's jubilee comes from accepting relationship with a woman who could change everything. But we know that power of relationship too. It's the communion with Jesus, and with each other, that can make this kind of transformation in the world possible, and bring about the rapture accordingly.