We know what is happening. We know what it takes to bring healing to our earth.
In confession and grief we will enter into the shadows.
And with each other – in community – we will sit together, and the light will return.
It’s all of one piece.
Doing needs to emerge from grieving.
And we – Church – need to figure out the “doing” together
This piece emerged as an interruption one afternoon while I was writing a Tenebrae liturgy that I planned to use in my church during Holy Week. I went ballistic as I thought about how pietistic so many church services often are, especially those with privilege and power, and how way too many churches barely touch on the pain of violence, oppression, and grief for Creation’s destruction – the daily crucifixions of Christ in our day and age. So I stopped writing liturgy for an hour and just ranted, pen in hand. This is what emerged.
The entire piece is in PDF format.