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The dark parable Jesus tells challenges us, not to learn what to do, but to recall and do what we’ve already learned from him.
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War messes with our moral compass. But it is the sense of inevitability that does far more damage. Our work is to enforce those boundaries.
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The parable is dark and disturbing. It doesn’t play out as we expect. And we’re not sure what it is supposed to mean. But maybe we should.
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Then one is praying for new life. Hope. And everything that can come from it. Joy. And everyone who can experience it. And justice for all.
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There’s something about parables we just get. They connect with us better than any other teaching. And they have far more depth.
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Clothes, and our expectations for what we wear and when, are a strange thing to condemn one another for. Well, really, ever.
