Heavy Man

I grew up in the fifties and went to university in the sixties. I was never a hippy, those of you who know me can only imagine what I would have looked like with long hair. The hippies had their own culture and their own language. One of their words was "heavy". What was often meant by "heavy" was that it was a deep intellectual concept and required heavy thinking.
Habakkuk refers to his writing as an oracle or a burden. It was as if he was saying, "This is heavy man!" Much of what he writes is heavy and it is owrth our time to wrestle with these questions.