go ahead and go there

there are times when you sit in class and the information, no matter how good it is, basically gets filtered through the senses with no intensity...then, on days like today, all words cut you like a knife...

when is it time?: wait?: does this mean never?: what is the result of waiting?

injustice was so much of what was talked about today...but i realize that we read about the poor every week- and we are not poor: we read about the oppressed, and we are not oppressed: we read about the marginal, and we are not marginal: HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE OPPRESSED? BECOME OPPRESSED? BECOME MARGINAL? if this is true, then i can clearly see why the incarnation is crucial to our call as disciples...christ became us-for us...the richest became the poorest- the holiest became the unholiest- the infinite became finite-for who? justice for who?

for me...

and so i in turn will be for others

can i become poor? can i become non-anglo? can i become oppressed? did not christ become this? even paul? what does this mean for me? i have 34 years of language that in essence is a voice speaking of 'individualism'...all for me...you only get it if you deserve it... work hard enough for it...poverty is a choice...you choose to make it or not...am i going to have to hate my family to accomplish eliminating the voice? for every minute that i wait, justice is being denied...

take off my skin
empty out my bank account
take off my heritage
give away what is in my closet
take off my nationality
go beyond my gender
take off my prejudices
strip my ego naked

live into this new creation...

what is it called if we were all required to do this?

equality