After Katrina, Let the Tears Come
Trying to shut down suffering?that's not the way of Jesus the
Christ, who wept at Lazarus's tomb, whose mother and friends
endured with him through the Crucifixion. That's not God's way.
God's
way is to be with us when we suffer. It's not me sitting next to
you and struggling with the pain; it's the God who lives
in me. These hands are Jesus' hands, and they will hold your
hands, if you want, and do for you as best they can.
Take your time. It's going to take time?time to get through the
terrible first confusion, time to deal with the afterwash of fear
and grief, time to clear up all the devastation, physical and
emotional. You need people to be neighbours to you, where you
are now; I'll do my best to do that for you.
The one lesson we should have listened to is the one we can
heed now: it's not everyone for themselves and devil take the
hindmost and I'm in it for Number One; it's that we need
community, we need to be responsible one for another, we
need to care enough to make some genuine sacrifices for each
other.
by
Molly Wolf
