Tag Archive: response


Lent word: Haere

Today’s word is haere… go. But I stay right here although my heart is with my family, my brain bandwidth follows live news announcements, and my gut says going out less now is when it will matter most. Leunig’s Fear and Love play over in my mind.  Every choice connects to capacity and the two ways to respond. I choose love. Let me always choose love. #haere #go

I watch The Holy Outlaw, 1970 documentary about Father Daniel Berrigan and as he’s moved between the courthouse and prison. The following is a quote of his exchange with a reporter.

daniel berrigan the holy outlaw you are not enough you will never be enough we are not prey sculpture of three people gertrude st

Q: What are your future plans?

     A: Resistance.

Poison tendrils grip
whispering:
“You are not enough.
You will never be enough.”
There is no qualification,
no job, no title, no recognition,
that could silence the voice.
Entwined within, around and through you
it is part of you,
it is part of who you are.
A cerebral cortex override
is required to live into the truth:
You don’t have to be small,
You don’t have to be still,
You don’t have to be silent anymore.
We are not prey.

Talitha Fraser

Did you see the news today?

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Did you see the news today?
Law failed love.
Let love be law.

Did you see the news today?
Hospitality failed love.
Let love be hospitality.

Did you see the news today?
Justice failed love.
Let love be justice.

Did you see?

 

Talitha Fraser

 

 

Four responses often overlooked:

  1. Exercise critical literacy in the social, economic and political geography we inhabit as church, proclaiming God’s sovereignty in ways that engage/challenge the entities that tend to rule our minds, hearts and societies;
  2. Understand that the gospel is first supposed to represent “good news for the poor”, and socially locating accordingly;
  3. Discern what it means to “go after big fish” today;
  4. Reach out to both victims and oppressors (restorative justice, building community across social boundaries)

(case in point the “Occupy” movement)

Full recording of the webinar should be available at www.chedmyers.org in a few days…