Day #2
Today began with Diana Butler Bass totally excavating the biblical account of Jesus - post resurrection - greeting the disciples with a feast in the face of the empire. The Sea of Tiberius was named after the emperor who sentenced Jesus to death. In this place of Roman control the disciples caught a lot of fish, some even large enough to be shipped directly to Caesar. Jesus invited them to dine on the catch that belonged to the powerful. The powerful require blind loyalty. But Jesus asks "Do you cherish me." The imperial feast is one of fear and the Jesus feast is one of love. How can we embody the kind of love that invites the most vulnerable to dine on the feast that defies the empire? Like the disciples I often find myself at the edge of the sea of despair where the rulers of the day claim the earth's resources, control the marginalized with a regime of fear, and seek to silence the powerful narrative of love and hope. There at the edge is where Jesus shows up spreading out the table cloth, inviting all to partake in a feast of resistance, and whispering in the seat of our soul - "Do YOU cherish me?" - Feed my sheep. So may it be blessed ones.
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