| | Wars and Rumors of LoveWes and I arrived home last night after spending the weekend with friends. There was an election yesterday regarding a new constitution, autonomy of states (which favors the rich, and ultimately hurts the poor- especially the district of La Paz), etc. all of which is shady bureaucracy, one government accusing the other of illegal illegitimate laws, votes, and being. Its a bit interesting. We watched the news as stone wars went on in Santa Cruz. We waiting to see if our neighbors would riot. We returned last night to quiet streets, our cold house, and staff meeting this morning. I muttered as I got ready for bed last night, "I don't think many would understand what it means to prepare for civil war and have nothing to show for it but an all-too-heavy backpack." Its a volatile place to live and its hard to know just how and when it'll go bad.
Elizabeth and I spoke of reconciliation yesterday in her kitchen as we prepared lunch. I thought much of Volf and his theology of reconciliation, his brave calling out of the sin of the oppressed, their need too for repentance of the hate, anger, vengeance that is bred from the underside. That without a new order of Love, there is no peace, no freedom, just changes of power, someone different with a different name and color of skin becoming the very oppressor they hated. It has to be about more than power. Freedom even is hard to make sense of. Whose freedom do we fight for? At what cost to whom. "There is too much injustice in the fight for justice," he says. And can a war be won justly, without hate. I only know that I pray love and choose love. I don't know any other way.
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