If that discomfort or disturbance triggers in you the fight or flight response, take a moment to resist flight, to sit with what you’re feeling that it may move you to fight. To fight injustice. To fight harm. Because something inside you has woken up to recognize injustice as wrong.
Because it means that you’ve been able to feel for/with others outside of yourself, outside of your family, even outside of your country. You’ve been able to find kin in the “other.” This is an act of self-care, of health, of wholeness to be able to allow yourself to be human, to allow your heart to beat for someone Jesus would call your neighbor, to allow yourself to feel indignation, to allow yourself to feel connected to a community bigger than your understanding and imagination, to allow your being to feel that transformative fire within, even for a moment.
If we feel out of place coming back, it is a normal symptom that says the veil of ego and individualistic comfort bred from imperialism has been lifted from our eyes. Our vision can no longer be one of complacency or status quo or even hopelessness.
These are the foundations of being a participant in God’s collective salvation for all people. It’s more than intellectual belief or knowledge. And it’s nothing less than the movement of the fire of the people.
May the reality that has been revealed to our group continue to beckon us to act and to stay connected to the struggle that brings peace to all of God's people and God's Creation.
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