Today we will continue Tutu's teaching about holding on together - from Michael Battle.
Two significant factors shaped this view. The first was Tutu's Anglican heritage, with its Eucharistic understanding of community, and then second was the long process by which South Africa renounced apartheid... Tutu's response was that human identity cannot be confined to racial classification. His theology also sought a remedy to the perception that history has yet "to produce an example of people giving up power voluntarily without external coercion."
We now know this movement in Sought Africa as something "out of this world." Even though it is not a perfect journey, it has made all of us look again at how we will face our differences and begin the never-ending journey of healing and becoming human - in the image of God. Giving up power, voluntarily, is what Jesus teaches as he washes the feet of his friends and teaches them (and us) about the meaning of love as it comes to life within the Reign of God that is breaking in all around us. One of the reasons I love to hear what Bishop Tutu has to say is that he does such a good job of bringing out the full meaning of our liturgy. It is life on parade. It is the Reign of God within a short period of time that enables us all to go out and walk and live as people of the Reign of God everywhere we go. In a previous book, I simply held on to Tutu's wonderful images of the liturgy and the life that each part opens up to us as we venture through them.
Connection: We need images to lead us beyond ourselves. We need to be lifted up to see from a new perspective and we need to see that newness coming to life here and there. So often that life begins here - not out there away from us.
Your love, O God, is as real as the next breath we take. Inspire us to continue to breath in that power of life that makes your love a part of every breath. Amen.
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