Yahweh works slowly and humbly to reform any society,
starting from the edges and the bottom… It is the consistent biblical theme of
themes. The victims are the victors...
The holy nation… emerges by a divine winnowing process. The whole group never gets the message, but a
smaller group (the remnant) carries the love and hope and restoration forward
after each purification (that is after the trials and tribulations the people
endure)…
Richard Rohr
(The Tears of Things)
“In your midst I will leave a humble and lowly people, those
who remain will seek all their refuge in Yahweh” (Zephaniah 3:12)
The normal power systems of the world worship themselves and
not God
Richard Rohr
(The Tears of Things)
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Ah, the patience of Sacred
perhaps the creative power
woven into all
that amazing diversity
of color
shape
gender
function
that is
the mountains and rivers
skies and clouds
wind and rain (and snow)
that is elk and deer
foxes and skunks
rats too
that is you and I
that is black, brown, white
every shade imaginable
that is the colors of the rainbow
every gender possible
knows something we do not
that the love and ingenuity
that is part of each of us
that sacred presence
we carry with us
knowingly
or not
through all of our enfleshment
is more powerful
than small people trying to be big
weak people trying to be strong
is a reality that will prevail
over fear, hate, and greed
that will overcome cruelty
and all the machinations of
malevolent and malicious people
God has always had special place
In God’s heart for “the least of these.”
Even more profound is the fact that God uses
that which is humble, even small
to move the work of love forward
don’t look to the pulpit
the White House (especially there)
don’t wander through the halls of power
hoping to find the answer
look in the immigrant camp
in the prison in El Salvador
in the homeless shelter
wander through the foodbank
that is where God is to be found
where hope is to be found
in the tiny, often powerless remnant
that remembers
to hang on to love
to Yahweh
to kindness and compassion
God knows
that is where restoration is to be found
and patiently nurtures
the tiny seed
that ultimately
will change everything
“But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the
wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what
is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that
are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God.” (I Corinthians 1:27-29)
