Saturday, March 5, 2022
What needs healing?
An excerpt from Luke 5:12 (NRSV)
They asked him, ‘Who is the man who said to you, “Take it up and walk”?’
Reflection from Claire Eskar,
Trinity Episcopal Church:
If we’re honest with ourselves, none of us can say we’ve achieved total righteousness.If we had, we wouldn’t need a penitential season like Lent. Achieving righteousness, though, doesn’t happen in a vacuum: instead, it occurs in deep community with others. Naturally, we sometimes debate, argue, and even hurt those we love. Sometimes, healing these breaches depends not on healing the qualities we struggle with in those around us, but on the qualities we struggle with ourselves and see reflected in our compatriots as a challenge to holiness.
Healing Dance by Kgara Kevin Rack (Botswana, 2015)
For further study and prayer, the readings assigned for today are:
Psalm 91:12, 9-16, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, John 12:27-36
Music:
“Weeping”
performed by Josh Groban,
Vusi Mahlasela, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo,
from the album, Awake.
Written by Dan Heymann, Ian Cohen,
Peter Cohen, and Tom Fox.
It doesn’t matter now it’s over anyhow
He tells the world that it’s sleeping
But as the night came round I heard
It slowly sound
It wasn’t roaring, it was weeping