Blessed to be a blessing

Friday January 26th, Luke 4: He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, Having the highest incarceration rate in the world should be a barometer of our national health. It is not so much a question of whether those individuals need to locked up as it is, why are so many drawn into that world. It is not just a matter of setting them free, it is a matter of fixing the system that is at the heart of a life of hopelessness. What directions are we taking that lead to hopelessness? Could the fact that 3% of the population owns 50% of the wealth, leaving the other 50% for the other 97% of us have anything to do with it. We are driving headlong down the road away from Paul’s vision of the body of Christ, away from Christ’s vision of bringing good news to the poor. Perhaps instead of more laws, police and prisons, what we need is a more equitable distribution of the wealth. We are after all, blessed to be a blessing.