Readings
I am struggling a little with these readings for today. This has been an incredibly difficult week, its one that I wish would just go away. I have found it hard to focus on anything positive or life giving. The ironic part is that I have been teaching Gandhi so one would think that I would feel surrounded by positive sentiments and emotions. Yet I have just felt helpless and frustrated. While I like the final message of the Gospel, the violence that occurs before we reach it does not sit well with me. One could almost interpret the message as if though violence and death are justified in the face of injustice or within the threat of injustice. These people are worthy of the kingdom because they produce the fruit, but how are they any better than the scribes and Pharisees? Even if Jesus was trying to make a point, is violence ever justified? I get that the violence intentional and unintentional that society has laid upon the laboring class by far out scales the violent actions of these workers, and yet I find myself not desiring either image. I just which we could live in a world were violence in not the most sought out option.
TGIF and I am looking forward to a weekend at home! Welcome back, girl! I missed your posting and glad now that either of us can start a post, although you are far more qualified and eloquent!
ReplyDeleteI read the commentary in This Day and the focus was on taking out the messenger and tied into both the first reading and the gospel. If we don't like the message -- be it challenging or confrontative we knock off the messenger rather than take a moment (or a lifetime) to humbly look at our behaviors and attitudes. Perhaps we are being called to change. We need to at least listen with an introspective ear and be open to hearing God's voice, lest we, too, reject the cornerstone. MOM