I haven't had much to say. I feel like a broken record most of the time. But my only defense is I feel God has given me eyes that continue to see the same things....I have much to learn, I guess.
This week I attended the U2 Eucharist Service, it was good. But it was all right up my alley..the poor, we need to act, Bono...what was not to like.
The minister who spoke read the story in Luke of the good Samaritan, good choice in scripture if you are talking about "standing up against global poverty". He made some really good point, can't say as it was anything I hadn't heard before but I am always struck by how whenever someone talks about that parable they always try to get us to make a connection with someone in the story and our choices are always the same...are you the Priest, are you the Levite or are you the good Samaritan?
It is scripture that is often used to teach us compassion...a good thing. But my thought is this....
We will not learn compassion by aligning with the Priest, the Levite or the good Samaritan...we will find compassion when we can see ourselves as the man in the ditch.
When we can somehow, is it possible? see ourselves as the poor, naked and hungry and oppressed then we will truly have compassion that will call us to be change, to be hope, to be Jesus.
3 comments:
Amen. We seldom realize it, but we are all that man in the ditch.
Ya, the more you get ditched the better off you really are...
I've been reading blogs all night, trying to catch up. This post on your blog is the one I relate to the most. I've often secretly thought that if Jesus' parables did turn out to be fiction, this would've been the one that should've clued us in the most. How could anyone just walk by THAT? There's a lot one can ignore, but the ultimate combo of both unconcious AND bleeding? C'mon! However, your post showed me that the reson I've felt this way is because, as I've always had so little in the way of help to offer, I, instead always identified with the fellah in the ditch. So, I've always been surprised at the lack of compassion except in the sense of society is cruel in general. Yet, because that is such a blanket statement, the surprize is still always there... walk by THAT? Thanx, Lori
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