You can't really let this Sunday go past when people all round the world who use the common lectionary have been thinking about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth without making space for Lybia tonight.
We thought about the whole middle east today in dispatches where people have shows the injusyice of a system and shamed it into the first steps towatds change (hopefully one that is peaceful and life-giving rather than military rule). However Lybia seems to have gone for the disporportionate clamp down where human life seems cheap. And eye for and eye is a moral code that at least limits retaliation. Turn the other cheek shames the rules that oppress.
Butm what do you do when the oppressor shows themselves once more to be without morality? I don't know any other way that to hold space, a vigil of sorts, that makes us make space and makes us think of those who stand up to oppression and forces us to change our routine because turning the other cheek, protesting against unjust systems is an expensive revolution and you can't do it on your own.
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