WE CAN STILL SHOW UP

Walter Wink (1935-2012) theologian and pastor wrote:

In offering advice about our responsibility with the major issues we are confronted with daily: “Finding our way between the hubris of assuming the burden of the world on our shoulders and the lonely conclusion that we have nothing to offer. He suggests that our role is first to listen for what is ours to do, then to do that: no less and no more. And finally, we are to wait in quiet confidence for a miracle. Whether or not we can successfully find our way through this tangle of crises that have been centuries in the making and into a livable future, we can still show up.”

At first this sounds a little too simplistic. Then upon retrospect… whether visiting a sick friend, celebrating a recent healing, lamenting in prayer with one struggling, offering to help pay someone’s rent, sharing a jug of V-8 Juice with someone, taking someone a jug of V-8 Juice and Bread, just being present to listen… ‘we can still show up.’

Showing up to be with the Father or others is loving.

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Jesus