(Un)Mute Yourself, Day 25
Luke 1:48 …for he has been mitigating risk to the humble state of his servant.
I’ve never really considered myself much of a meditative Christian. There is, however, one thing I do that makes me feel closest to what I imagine it’s like to be a meditative person: learning bible stories by heart.
Spending time with the millennia-old script from Holy Scripture, letting its surprising, profound, sometimes even weird words marinate in my body and brain –– that’s what often calms my soul.
This is a moment in history when we are called upon to mitigate risks to our neighbor, to take steps ourselves to reduce the adverse effects of, well, everything. But especially the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s clear that we in the United States aren’t doing so well at that.
The actions of God, as sung by Mary our mother in Luke’s prologue, speak to a different world: one in which the hungry are fed and those at the front line (and most at-risk from the coronavirus) are vaccinated.
May it be so.
