The troubled environment that the current American regime has put upon society is more stress, less peace, more worry, less hope, … More people are losing sleep, and this lowers the general health …
The perpetrators are secure in the wealth, privilege, and power they have hoarded by abusing the populace and planet. Their message to their victims is that it is a virtue to suffer pain, and they should tough it out. But we struggle not only against material foes. In all this we must navigate together not just to survive but to rise beyond the hoard that oppressors are worshipping and not be “conformed to this present age” (Romans 12:1-2).
Once Jesus met a man possessed by a legion of demons and liberated him. Those in charge asked him to leave (Luke 8:26-39).
He spoke to a storm and calmed it. “Where is your faith?” he said to his fearful disciples (Luke 8:22-25).
He cleared blindness, exposing the blindness of those who objected (John 9).
He befriended the marginalized and stayed with them. (John 4:1-29)
He demonstrated solidarity with the pain and suffering of humanity.
… It’s our turn now …
In the night awakened
Troubled sights and sounds
On your heart weighing;
Your turn in the prayer watch
Called by the Spirit
In the Company
Believing what cannot
Be circumscribed or sold
And not to worry;
Your turn to move
The minute increment
In humanity’s growth,
To raise the cry for help
To the Will creating,
Forming us as God’s place,
Reaffirming the love
That binds us to Spirit
And to one another,
Saying “breach be bridged”,
To bound minds “release”,
Bind up the broken,
To hush the storm,
Send Legion out
Of perpetrators,
Support and strengthen
All fellow agents
Of evolving hope.
Mark R. Turner
April 7, 2025
Athens House
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