A colleague’s personal word about the violent death of non-violent Tom Fox in Iraq; seeing the Oscar winner Crash, a movie full of shocking brokenness and healing in spite of; hearing of the escalation of violence in Iraq and getting clear that there is no exit plan at this stage that makes sense for all concerned; performing the last rites for our two-year-old fish, “Buddy,” as we buried him under our beautiful yellow pansies; starting tax preparation and recapping the nuts and bolts of 2005; talking with one of my high school girlfriends about the death of her mother, who got down to sixty pounds but chipper as she said last goodbyes; and reading a biographical sketch of the compassionate theologian Yves Congar – these are some of the events that linger as I wind down and ready for dreamtime. My thought for the day is what Congar wrote about the church, and we can also say about the rest of creation, and our lives: “at once holy and always in need of reformation.” ~jpc
Life is a communion, a wholeness, that we can’t and don’t want to escape. Namaste.
image: Congar, a master theologian of Vatican II
2 comments:
EXCELLENT!!! Another masterpiece.
Tom Fox's reflection, written the day before his abduction. "Why are we here? We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exist within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization. We are here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of God's children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own souls." RCW
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