Someday blooming

 

It is like a vision out of a nightmare

Violent people crawling like flies up walls

Windows breaking

 

Faces wild with excitement and glee

bodies emblazoned with the name of one

they follow

 

driven by a hundred devils

resentment, racism, greed, hate, perhaps even

a fear they will not admit

 

They revel in their power

to destroy and cow

 

no matter what they do

it seems they win

no matter what is done to resist them

we lose

 

if we cower, they win

if we strike back, they win

 

we are either overwhelmed

or we are sucked into the vortex of hate

 

yet here we stand

watching

wondering

knowing we must do something

 

what would Jesus do?

what does our allegiance to the prince of peace

demand?

 

we are called to be light, and to offer

a glimmer of hope in the darkness

we are called to be yeast, inexorably defining the whole

we are to be seeds planted

watered

nurtured

 

someday blooming

 

what can we do in these times?

 

we can work for peace

we can work for justice

we can speak of love

we can speak of equity and justice

 

remembering we are only a sliver of light

only a bit of yeast

only a seed buried in the earth

 

what can do we in these times?

So little, yet so much

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Thankful for these words attributed to Oscar Romero

 

“This is what we are about

We are the seeds that one day will grow

We water the seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise

We lay foundations that will need further development

We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities….

 

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the workman.”

                     Quoted by Scott Wright in Oscar Romero and the Communion of Saints