Brokenness and Healing.

Some quick thougths on the readings for this week.

The theme that runs through our readings this week is brokenness and healing.

Elijah is broken by fear and flees to the mountain of God. There he is healed by the God met in the sound of sheer silence.

Paul lives is a broken world where the new people of God are still struggling with separation and division based on ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. They mirror the society they live in, and Paul calls them to wholeness – to break the social taboos that call them to separation. It was a hard ask for so many.

Jesus meets a man possessed by Legion – in a land possessed by the Roman legions. He healed the man – but not the pigs – and was asked to leave. It was too much for everyone else. When brokenness is the norm, healing is too hard. It is better to stay with what we know.

We live in a broken world. Violence, hatred, belittling and dehumanising are the norm. Healing is hard in our world too. Where is the brokenness in our lives, our city, our church? What healing are we being invited into? Do we have the courage to live it?