A simple follow-up to yesterday’s look at Dives and Lazarus. It seems to me that there are some questions that arise from the story that might serve as lenses through which we can examine our own lives.
What are the walls we put up, or leave up? What are the structures in our daily routines, in our habits or “order” that enable us to avoid others, not only in our world or community, but in our family?
What are the things that make others repulsive to us? What do we allow to be “turn-offs” that let us justify the hardship of others or justify not seeing them?
Who do we hold at a distance? Who do we wall out?
What are the doorways, the openings through which we could be going, to approach the Lazaruses in our lives, to touch the untouchables? Where can we cut some newdoors?
Tomorrow – Hell as Chasm, Life as Insect.
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