Excerpts from Richard Rohr's meditation yesterday

[Gabrielle Dean]

Following on from the Edwin Muir poem yesterday, ("when I hear Daily his dying whisper in my ear".  Richard Rohr had a very good article about scapegoating as his meditation yesterday.

"We have not moved beyond the ancient practices of ritual scapegoating—we have just become better at hiding them.

—Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Scapegoats

"The Gospels reveal how Jesus’s death on the cross was, in part, a punishment for protecting the sacred dignity of those deemed disposable.

From our places of comfort, we are challenged to reverse the all-too-common scapegoating that takes place in our culture:

“Together ... we must follow in Jesus’s footsteps, conforming our lives and our churches to the values Jesus modelled…. We must call for and participate in the same kind of reversal that Jesus did. We must lift up the poor, the oppressed, and the outcasts and bring down the people, powers, and systems that create poverty, that marginalize the weak, and that scapegoat the outsiders.”

For me this image shows the darkness that is everywhere in the world but with signs of hope in the sky, reflecting in the water (of our souls!)