Evening: Psalm 74; Matthew 14:1-12
Those who confront unrighteous power often fall victim to its violence … John the Baptist; modern day prophets too. Last weekend, Paulinho Guajajara was murdered while protecting his indigenous people’s land and forest against illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon. John was murdered for demanding justice from King Herod. Jesus was also killed by unrighteous power, but he rose to demonstrate that love and justice ultimately hold sway over the power of death. Love and justice overcome the power of death, as Dylan Thomas affirmed: “Though lovers be lost love shall not, and death shall have no dominion.”
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