4th Sunday after Epiphany Luke 4:21-30

Today is the day

No more waiting

No more getting ready

Jubilee is here

And the world will be set right

--with God

---------- and our neighbor as ourselves

and with a collective sigh

all thought he was cute

------ and naïve

---------and would learn some day

the way the world really is

“You can’t trust those people”

“They are not like us”

“We are the chosen

------ frozen

---------- righteous

of god

in our image

and the young Jesus reminded them

of the limitlessness of God

and God’s view of neighbor

and reminded them of the difference

between the world as is

and the world will be

but he walked right through the crowd

set to enforce

with force

what is

and went on his way

to what will be