Here’s
a thoughtful reflection on Luke 1:47-55 (Mary’s Magnificat). It was written by Sara Miles.
A Hunger Beyond Food
(inspired by Luke
1:47-55)
“He has
filled the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away with empty hands.” Luke 1:53
and sent the rich away with empty hands.” Luke 1:53
At
the heart of Christianity
is
a power that continues to speak to
and
transform us.
As
I found to my surprise and alarm,
it
could speak even to me:
not
in the sappy, Jesus-and-cookies tone
of
mild-mannered liberal Christianity,
or
the blustering, blaming hellfire
of
the religious right.
What
I heard, and continue to hear,
is
a voice that can crack
religious
and political convictions open,
that
advocates for the least qualified,
least
official, least likely;
that
upsets the established order
and
makes a joke of certainty.
It
proclaims against reason
that
the hungry will be fed,
that
those cast down will be raised up,
and
that all things,
including
my own failures,
are
being made new.
It
offers food without exception
to
the worthy and unworthy,
the
screwed-up and pious,
and
then commands everyone to do the same.
~
excerpted from Sara Miles in A Hunger
Beyond Food. Posted on the Seed
Publishers website. http://www.seedspublishers.org/
