Empire behaves like God
Who can stop them?
It seems omnipresent
And all-powerful
It comes into the streets with violence
Masked thugs in camo
Beating down
the black person
brown person
mother mary
pregnant
dragged through the snow
sobbing
bulldozers come
and destroy another home
and rip up another olive tree
drones fly
death on the wing
it is everywhere
and where the H3!!
Is God?
The heavy foot of empire is not new
Always the powerful
The rich
Have tried to keep us all down
And we the people
Have cried to a God who doesn’t respond
It seems hopeless
Indeed, so many no longer feel hope
It is all too much
The evidence piles up
As Empire God steals hope
And yet against all hope
When there is no reason for hope
We must have hope
Not hope as optimism
Or wishful thinking
Not hope as a feeling
Hope is not what we feel
It is what we do
This is what I learned from the people of Palestine this
last week.
Hope is what you do!!
We may not be able to feel hope.
But we can live hope
We can live each day as if love wins,
As if compassion and empathy are good
As if every person, no matter their color, country of
origin, or language (or even faith system), is a child of God and a treasure
We can care.
Give.
Forgive.
Help.
Welcome
It is like Christmas
Where God did not send thoughts and prayers
Did not say what needed to be said
But did what needed to be done
Sent the light into the darkness
Do Hope
Be Hope
Shine
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