Situations like this always brings me back to the brilliant Walter Brueggemann sermon The Liturgy of Abundance and the Myth of Scarcity. Brueggemann suggests that from the beginning of the human story we live out the belief that there will never be enough to go around when in fact, in the very foundations of the created world is a theology of abundance, enough for everyone if we practice generosity and gratitude.
I was speaking with someone this morning in a Zoom meeting who works with the disadvantaged in the poorest communities of Southern California and she spoke of the huge irony of this particular place in our history. She noticed how the poor with whom she was working, were stepping up to share what they had with each other, as they always do, and the middle and upper classes quickly overload their grocery carts and horde what little there might be to go around. What is wrong with us?
Situations like this always brings me back to the brilliant Walter Brueggemann sermon The Liturgy of Abundance and the Myth of Scarcity. Brueggemann suggests that from the beginning of the human story we live out the belief that there will never be enough to go around when in fact, in the very foundations of the created world is a theology of abundance, enough for everyone if we practice generosity and gratitude.
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