It’s My Platform! By Kathleen McAnear Smith
://www.nationalgallery.org.uk Belshazzar’s Feast, my photo taken with permission of National Gallery London It’s My Platform! There is no feeling like coming into your home train station after a long journey. The platform just about has your name on it. I love platform 2 in Farnham, Platform 5 in Guildford and then there is the excitement of hoping onto the platforms at York and Waverley in Edinburgh. I remember my great student adventure in arriving at a Moscow platform, when Russia was still the USSR. It was SO cold, I lined my American boots with Pravda and still needed to walk to the station exit on my heels. In God’s story, platforms are called “High Places’ and they were meant to be a revelation of just who we worship. 1&2 Kings reveals that kings built their platforms to attract followers. They wanted the power and authority that came with platforms. King Jeroboam said he built a couple ...