Unmasked Week 4: Justice
As a country, we are waking up to and engaging injustices that have long existed prior to COVID: racism, economic inequality, misogyny, educational inequality, lack of access to quality healthcare, to name just a few.
As a country, we are waking up to and engaging injustices that have long existed prior to COVID: racism, economic inequality, misogyny, educational inequality, lack of access to quality healthcare, to name just a few. In the same way, Jesus encountered long-suffering individuals in these stories, and offered healing, not only to the ones suffering, but also to the communities that perpetuated their suffering.
Braving The Wilderness: God Provides
God provides in the wilderness. Author Anne Lamott puts it this way: “It’s almost indigestible: death, divorce, old age, drugs; brain damaged children, violence, senility, unfaithfulness. Good luck with figuring it out. It unfolds, and you experience it, and it is so horrible and endless that you could almost give up a dozen times. But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang. Through the most ordinary things, books, for instance, or a postcard, or eyes or hands, life is transformed.”
God provides in the wilderness. Author Anne Lamott puts it this way: “It’s almost indigestible: death, divorce, old age, drugs; brain damaged children, violence, senility, unfaithfulness. Good luck with figuring it out. It unfolds, and you experience it, and it is so horrible and endless that you could almost give up a dozen times. But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang. Through the most ordinary things, books, for instance, or a postcard, or eyes or hands, life is transformed.”
God provides, maybe not the all-you can eat buffet you really wanted but you’ll eat and be full, yes God provides, God provides, God provides.