I have a confession to make…

This is a pictures of a real sign posted outside of a restaurantaunt here in town.  I took it.  I am blogging about this only to show that injustice is very real, and is something to be raged against.  I know some of the street kids that this sign references and I happen to think they are good boys who deserve a chance.  God had created us ALL and His son has died for us ALL.  Not just the rich not just the neat or well mannered, the poor and the messy and those of us who may be a bit more difficult to handle.  He has given all of us a chance and no one has any right to take that away from anyone.  It is not my place or the place of the people who made this signs place to define what “productive useful citizen” even is.  Rather than not giving the poor food or money, and rather than giving them food or money think to talk to them.  Give of our time and of our spirits, as God fills us let us pour back on people.  Learn their stories and about their lives, their needs and then pray about how we can meet those needs.  It is easy to throw bread and money at people.  I am learning to throw my heart and soul. 

 

“Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.”  ~Proverbs 30:8

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“What therefore is the task of the
preacher(or the church) today?

Shall I answer: “Faith, hope
and love?”

That sounds beautiful.

But I would say- Courage.

No, that is not challenging enough
to be the whole truth.

Our task is recklessness.

For what we Christians lack is not
psychology or literature,

we lack a holy rage.

The recklessness that comes from
the knowledge of God and humanity.

The ability to rage when justice
lies prostrate on the streets…

and when the lie rages against the
ravaging of God’s earth,

and the destruction of God’s world.

To rage when little children must
die of hunger,

when the tables of the rich are
sagging with food.

To rage at the senselessness of
killing so many,

and against the madness of
militaries.

To rage at the lie that calls the
threat of death and the strategy of destruction- Peace.

To rage against complacency.

To restlessly seek recklessness
that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms with the
norms of the Kingdom of God.

And remember the signs of the
church have always been-  

the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and
the Fish… but never the chameleon.