“It’s a frightful thing, thinking you have to get God right in order to get God to love you...” She went on to suggest something both unsettling and liberating: that being wrong about God may simply be part of being human, and that the moment we believe we have completely figured God out, we have mistaken our understanding for the One who forever exceeds it.
It struck me forcibly today during friday psalms:
yes, tragedy and malevolence flood the media day after day;
endless cycles of violence, greed, corruption, crime, destruction . . . .
But meanwhile the real work -
the work of healing, compassion, tenderness,
of sharing, play, joy, love, building, creation . . . .
this real work goes largely unreported,
continuing ceaselessly under the radar.
This is what and where you are at
and most especially in those places where evil seems to reign.
But it doesn't
and, if we look carefully, we can all bear witness to that.
And that, I am sure, is what we are called to do.
And when we do, we help sow the seeds of justice.
“Christ is not absent from Gaza. He is there - crucified in the wounded, buried under rubble and yet present in every act of mercy, every candle in the darkness, every hand extended to the suffering.”
Your "yes" to God requires your "no" to all injustice:
to all evil, to all lies,
to all oppression,
to all violation of the weak and the poor.